asseverate

—At this, the Boy suffered some Confusion, then to asseverate, My Tutor is deceased, Sir.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Why merely say something, when they can declare, assert, expostulate, announce, or asseverate it?

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

And I hereby do fully and freely declare and asseverate, that the Woods did not tremble to a kiss, and that the lovers did.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

If the Cardinal argued the case, the Prince would asseverate, after his manner, and some sort of result was sure to follow.

From Saracinesca by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Be a man, sir, and asseverate your independence.

From Frank Oldfield Lost and Found by Theodore P. Wilson

In the Daily Mail in 2007, Humphrys asseverated that “vandals” who use “grotesque abbreviations” in their text messages are “pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary”.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2016

Sometimes, Ms. Silveri asseverated, “ ‘she said’ is just the very best way to say that.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2015

Nothing like her had been heard, the audience individually and as a body asseverated, in the six years in which Chicago has had an opera company named for it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Frantic screeds from the offices of the promoters asseverated that the true spine shatterings would begin with the second week's bill.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Well, I don't care—I say I heard it," asseverated the churchwarden.

From A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Note how your captains of industry are asseverating that factories in the North must cut wages in order to compete with those that have gone South.

From The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist by Robert E. Bell

"Don't be alarmed, don't be alarmed; I'm not mad, by God, I'm not mad," the captain kept asseverating excitedly.

From The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Governor broke off, annoyed to find himself asseverating for the second time so obvious a fact.

From The Hermit and the Wild Woman by Edith Wharton

So off they went in a body to the manager and demanded his instant dismissal, loudly asseverating that they would no longer eat, drink, or work in company with such a monster.

From Asbestos Its production and use, with some account of the asbestos mines of Canada by Robert H. Jones

The speaker was a countryman, who appeared to have been asseverating something regarded by the rest of the company as greatly in need of confirmation.

From The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Richard Garnett