NOUN
- a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)
How To Use asseveration In A Sentence
- Its essence is an asseveration that the physical constants must have values within extremely narrow limits in order for life to exist. The Panda's Thumb: Mark Perakh Archives
- A favourite and amusing mode of asseveration among the syeds, especially in testifying to an untruth, is "Beh ser e jeddam" (by the head of my grandfather), meaning Mahommed; indeed it is a common adage that the greatest swearers are the greatest liars. Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
- This astonishing asseveration he bases upon the truism that ‘the productiveness, or utility of the soil is a decisive factor in the determination of its value or its rent.’
- Chabray, no asseveration or shrieks availing her, fair slim damsel, late in the arms of Royalty, has a garter round her neck, and furibund The French Revolution
- Competitive journalism, like competitive advertising, ends in the asseveration of impossible claims.
- This was the asseveration in the first paragraph of the petition.
- A fly was speedily found; and three donkeys — which the proprietor declared on his solemn asseveration to be ‘three parts blood, and the other corn’ — were engaged in the service. Sketches by Boz
- With this solemn asseveration, which is not lightly made, but which is the result of sixty years 'experience, I leave you. The Pilot
- But pray, Mr. Lovelace, do you mean any thing at all, when you swear so often as you do, By your soul, or bind an asseveration with the words, As you hope to be saved? Clarissa Harlowe
- The oath of one of the initiated must counterbalance the most solemn asseveration of every one that is not acquainted with our holy secrets. Anne of Geierstein