asseverate

Example Sentences

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Why merely say something, when they can declare, assert, expostulate, announce, or asseverate it?

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

—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

All this flashed through her mind with lightning rapidity while Mr. Dehnicke continued to asseverate his friendship for Walter, and look at her with his round eyes in undesirous adoration.

From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann

She did not asseverate any more, nor even say she was innocent.

From Sue, A Little Heroine by Meade, L. T.

That I long for a sight of your dear face, that I hunger for your touch and for your sweet voice, I need not tell you or further asseverate.

From Doctor Claudius, A True Story by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)