asseveration
Example Sentences
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The use made of the word in the conversation of ancient Greece should be in easy recollection, bringing down as it did upon the Athenian people the accusation of being their popular oath of asseveration.
From A Cursory History of Swearing by Julian Sharman
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 Reynold Nicholson
Stepping nearer, I bent down by the side of the young girl; and as soon as her silence gave me an opportunity of being heard, repeated my asseveration.
From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Mayne Reid
Enough surely has been already adduced to warrant a reasonable man in refusing to accept Professor Jowett's repeated asseveration that the Bible is "to be interpreted like any other book."
From Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford by John William Burgon
But although the theologian heaps up protestation upon asseveration until the mass attains an imposing size, the whole is not of more substantial value than a huge bubble blown by an energetic school boy.
From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Thomas Inman
