asseverate

VERB
  1. state categorically
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How To Use asseverate In A Sentence

  • He still asseverated that it was a land of gold, and he believed that if he could get to Egypt the rest would be easy. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
  • Now whether that word hath origin in a Greek term meaning a conflict, as the best-read boys asseverated, or whether it is nothing more than a figure of similitude, from the beating arms of a mill, such as I have seen in counties where are no waterbrooks, but folk make bread with wind — it is not for a man devoid of scholarship to determine. Lorna Doone
  • I once noticed Mary McCarthy ending a line of dialogue with she asseverated, and had to stop reading to get the dictionary. Ten guidelines for better writing - that work
  • I once noticed Mary McCarthy ending a line of dialogue with “she asseverated,” and had to stop reading to get the dictionary. Words of the wise one | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit"
  • They descended, passing the man with the pail, who again asseverated that he had let no intruder pass, down to the commissionaire and the hovering chestnut man, who rigidly reasserted their own watchfulness. The Complete Father Brown
  • “I did, Laura!” asseverated Pin, on the brink of tears. The Getting of Wisdom
  • He asseverated that faith empowers, faith abides, faith surmounts every obstacle.
  • It is profound what has happened," Rush asseverated when I asked for his reflections on the past four decades. Four Decades of Conservative Journalism
  • A very few weeks ago, the Convention asseverated, in the usual acclamatory style, that they would never even listen to a proposal for diminishing the value, or stopping the currency, of any description of assignats. A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part IV., 1795 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
  • “Amen!” asseverated his wife, and the daughter, Hester, or Esta, as she was called by the family, moved by the need of as much public support as possible for all of them — echoed it after her. An American Tragedy
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