asseveration

Example Sentences

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He defends himself, by the most solemn asseveration, against the charge that what he had seen was an illusion of the senses.

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold

The brethren raised their hands in solemn asseveration and, like a pillar of sacred sacrificial incense, the steamy cloud from thirty throats rose to Heaven in one united breath, "We swear it!"

From The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister by Hillern, Wilhelmine von

And some friends also stood doubtful how far he might be touched therein, upon the constant asseveration of his guiltiness in the cause, and that also given out by persons of no mean account.

From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by Gerard, John

To swear by her name was to give to the asseveration the sanctity of inviolable truth.

From Women of England by James, Bartlett Burleigh

Which way his own tastes leaned we may judge from his favorite asseveration, "By my Zuccone."

From Tuscan Sculpture of the Fifteenth Century A Collection of Sixteen Pictures Reproducing Works by Donatello, the Della Robia, Mino da Fiesole, and Others, with Introduction by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)