asseveration
Example Sentences
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But whereas the Entente Powers have supported their official case by documentary evidence we are asked to accept mere asseveration in the case of Germany.
From Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 31, 1916 by Various
The use made of the word in the conversation of ancient Greece should be in easy recollection, bringing down as it did upon the Athenian people the accusation of being their popular oath of asseveration.
From A Cursory History of Swearing by Julian Sharman
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 Elizabeth Robins
An asseveration made in this tone excludes the supposition of inaccuracy or careless vagueness, and the specific statements have all the force of sworn evidence.
From Supernatural Religion, Vol. III. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels
John indeed follows up his statement of what he saw with an unusually strong asseveration that what he says is true.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Marcus Dods
