asseveration

Example Sentences

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"There can't nobody live in peace in them two blocks, Judge, your Honour," came the heated asseveration of the man in the witness chair.

From The Tempering by Buck, Charles Neville

If Hubert was stung by this asseveration, he did not show it.

From A Life Sentence A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline

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 Robins, Elizabeth

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 Cassels, Walter Richard

Then, as though her asseveration had slightly mollified her, she added: "Or if I do——" and, then paused.

From A Modern Wizard by Ottolengui, Rodrigues