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

She did not asseverate any more, nor even say she was innocent.

From Sue, A Little Heroine by L. T. Meade

What is the relative force of affirm and assert? asseverate? aver? assure?

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

No one appeared to think it worth while to asseverate the fact, for it was self-evident.

From Black Ivory by Francis B. Pearson

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

Le Temps asseverated that there was a middle course between the guillotine and acquittal—ten or fifteen years in prison.

From Time Magazine Archive

The President," he asseverated, "is in fine fettle and he is a fine fellow.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I am proud," Mr. Seicht asseverated, "of the acquaintance of the wealthiest proprietor of the country."

From The Progressionists, and Angela. by Conrad von Bolanden

She would lie there, gazing at me, with a dumb fear in her eyes—and I would go on asseverating blindly, like an unsuccessful actor before a jeering audience.

From Sylvia's Marriage by Upton Sinclair

Afterwards he ate the most astonishing dinner imaginable, loudly asseverating that he was as right as nine-pence and sick of slops.

From The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough

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

I had only wasted time in asseverating that barren reefs are twice as plentiful as half-tucker reefs; ten times as plentiful as wages reefs; and a hundred times as plentiful as pile reefs.

From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy

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