asseveration

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With this asseveration he rose erect and entered boldly among the bushes, while Nelatu concealed himself behind them.

From The White Squaw by Reid, Mayne

I venture to add, with all possible energy of asseveration, that I did that thing, Nim.

From Quodlibet by Kennedy, John Pendleton

Now did not you deny in the Tower unto me with earnest asseveration, that you had not any conference with Hall, until the witness was produced against you, and then you confessed it?

From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by Gerard, John

Which way his own tastes leaned we may judge from his favorite asseveration, "By my Zuccone."

From Tuscan Sculpture of the Fifteenth Century A Collection of Sixteen Pictures Reproducing Works by Donatello, the Della Robia, Mino da Fiesole, and Others, with Introduction by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)

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