asseveration
Example Sentences
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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 Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll
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
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
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 Wilhelmine von Hillern
"Did you ever read such a childish, ridiculous, extravagant asseveration?" he demanded.
From The Haunted Pajamas by Francis Perry Elliott
