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
Mrs. Kane has always been most careful not to make any positive asseveration of the claims of Spiritualism.
From The Death-Blow to Spiritualism Being the True Story of the Fox Sisters by Reuben Briggs Davenport
Now did not you deny in the Tower unto me with earnest asseveration, that you had not any conference with Hall, until the witness was produced against you, and then you confessed it?
From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by John Gerard
She seemed to expect his asseveration, Cethegus was silent for a short time.
From A Struggle for Rome, v. 1 by Felix Dahn
And some friends also stood doubtful how far he might be touched therein, upon the constant asseveration of his guiltiness in the cause, and that also given out by persons of no mean account.
From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by John Gerard
