asseveration

Example Sentences

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"I didn't know," said Margaret, helplessly, wondering that the truth could sound so like a lie, but unable to fortify it by any asseveration.

From Boston Neighbours In Town and Out by Poor, Agnes Blake

To swear by her name was to give to the asseveration the sanctity of inviolable truth.

From Women of England by James, Bartlett Burleigh

Heaton, 4th Jurist, new series, page 708, for the distinguishment between the words of asseveration and the essential words of an oath.

From The True Story of my Parliamentary Struggle by Bradlaugh, Charles

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 Gerard, John

Heaton, 4th Jurist, new series, page 708, for the distinguishment between the words of asseveration and the essential words of an oath.

From The True Story of my Parliamentary Struggle by Bradlaugh, Charles