asseverate

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Finally, to clinch his argument, he asseverates with audacious ingenuity: 'I have never written a book, and I never will, to which I will not affix my own name.'

From The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London by Allen, P. S. (Percy Stafford)

And therefore for the first and only time in his narrative he departs from simple narration, and most solemnly asseverates that he is speaking the truth and was an eyewitness of the things he relates.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Dods, Marcus

He solemnly asseverates that the pain which Israel's rejection causes him is acute and continuous.

From St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. II A Practical Exposition by Gore, Charles

He declaims bitterly against his fellow-townsmen, his friend, and the woman whom he loves; all of whom, he asseverates, treat him unjustly, and as he never could, by any possibility, treat them.

From An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Symons, Arthur

And of "many current makers of magazine short stories," he asseverates, "such stuff has no imaginable relation to life as men live it in the world."

From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 by Various