asseveration
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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
To swear by her name was to give to the asseveration the sanctity of inviolable truth.
From Women of England by Bartlett Burleigh James
Just at this moment, Julia's absurd shufflings, and equivocations, and barefaced changes from one asseveration to another fill her with wrath.
From Portia or By Passions Rocked by Duchess
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
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
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