asseverate

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—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

"Positive philosophy," with complacent sciolism, may still coldly asseverate that the world is a dead congeries of "laws," into whose realm man is cast to take pot-luck in the universe; but we shall know better.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various

We asseverate it in a peculiarly earnest manner, or with increased positiveness as what can not be disputed.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

And I hereby do fully and freely declare and asseverate, that the Woods did not tremble to a kiss, and that the lovers did.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas