asseveration
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Its originality is simply an asseveration of paternity.
From Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music by Charles Gounod
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
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
Peter could have made no stronger asseveration; for he highly valued the long appendage to his bushy head, and of all creatures he hated cats.
From I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success by Azel Stevens Roe
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