asseverate

—At this, the Boy suffered some Confusion, then to asseverate, My Tutor is deceased, Sir.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Why merely say something, when they can declare, assert, expostulate, announce, or asseverate it?

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

What is the relative force of affirm and assert? asseverate? aver? assure?

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

He could hardly, for his confusion, asseverate the "Yes," when Rabette came running in with the almost unsuitably accented tidings, that the mother was coming.

From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

The phrase "to bear in hand" for "to asseverate," was still frequently used in the reign of Charles II.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Alexander Pope

In the Daily Mail in 2007, Humphrys asseverated that “vandals” who use “grotesque abbreviations” in their text messages are “pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary”.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2016

Sometimes, Ms. Silveri asseverated, “ ‘she said’ is just the very best way to say that.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2015

Frantic screeds from the offices of the promoters asseverated that the true spine shatterings would begin with the second week's bill.

From Time Magazine Archive

Referring to the oil industry in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, Comrade Orakhelashvili asseverated that: Figures from Egypt on the general election just held show that ex-Premier Zaghlul Pasha just missed winning a remarkable victory.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I believe the story just as the accused told it," asseverated his highness.

From Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale by M?r J?kai

She was there admonished to tell the whole truth, but persisted in asseverating that Sidonia had never learned from her how to make a love-drink.

From Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 by Wilhelm Meinhold

Are they to be summarily disposed of as resting upon some tacit assumption of that old-grannyism which delights in asseverating that times are not what they used to be?

From The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske

Into every room they looked, the old woman asseverating denials that it was of no use, they might see for themselves, that no one had been there for years past.

From Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume by Charlotte Mary Yonge

Georgie cried day and night, merely asseverating that she hated Joe, and loved Ma, and she wished people would let her alone.

From Saturday's Child by Kathleen Thompson Norris

Hereupon follows a lively fire of argument between Bobby and his sister; she protesting that she will not espouse a bishop, and he asseverating that she shall.

From Nancy by Rhoda Broughton