asseveration

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The brethren raised their hands in solemn asseveration and, like a pillar of sacred sacrificial incense, the steamy cloud from thirty throats rose to Heaven in one united breath, "We swear it!"

From The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister by Hillern, Wilhelmine von

An asseveration made in this tone excludes the supposition of inaccuracy or careless vagueness, and the specific statements have all the force of sworn evidence.

From Supernatural Religion, Vol. III. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Cassels, Walter Richard

Heaton, 4th Jurist, new series, page 708, for the distinguishment between the words of asseveration and the essential words of an oath.

From The True Story of my Parliamentary Struggle by Bradlaugh, Charles

But whereas the Entente Powers have supported their official case by documentary evidence we are asked to accept mere asseveration in the case of Germany.

From Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 31, 1916 by Various

She scarcely knew what to make of this tender asseveration, and she said nothing.

From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Hillern, Wilhelmine von