asseveration
Example Sentences
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Then, as though her asseveration had slightly mollified her, she added: "Or if I do——" and, then paused.
From A Modern Wizard by Ottolengui, Rodrigues
To swear by her name was to give to the asseveration the sanctity of inviolable truth.
From Women of England by James, Bartlett Burleigh
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
Its originality is simply an asseveration of paternity.
From Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music by Gounod, Charles
The only five minutes during which he had appeared really awake had been when some one in the smoking-room repeated Julian Grant's asseveration that the German atrocity stories were "faked."
From The Messenger by Robins, Elizabeth