asseverate

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

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

—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

How wise was his nightly habit, as he settled himself in bed before falling asleep, to asseverate with a sigh of thankfulness that no man living was more contented and healthier than he!

From Apologia Diffidentis by Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock)

The mighty works of Ramesis the Great, Memphis, Karnak and Thebes asseverate The pomp and glory, Egypt, of your ancient state.

From Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland by Tatlow, Joseph

"She belongs to the machine," he would asseverate with warmth.

From Little Aliens by Kelly, Myra

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

Del. Sir / It has been facetiously asseverated by some clerical wags here that Father Andrew Greeley has already published all his thoughts: now he is beginning to publish all his fantasies.

From Time Magazine Archive

He asseverated that he would not jeopardize the interests of French citizens for the sake of winning advantages which some firms might derive from trading with Russia.

From Time Magazine Archive

“It is the truth, dear daughter,” Oldcorne asseverated.

From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by Ainsworth, William Harrison

Are they to be summarily disposed of as resting upon some tacit assumption of that old-grannyism which delights in asseverating that times are not what they used to be?

From The Unseen World and Other Essays by Fiske, John

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 Wharton, Edith

So Ferondo returned to his hamlet, where all that saw him fleeing, as folk are wont to flee from spectacles of horror, he called them back, asseverating that he was risen from the tomb.

From The Decameron, Volume I by Rigg, J. M. (James Macmullen)

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 Gough, George W.

Into every room they looked, the old woman asseverating denials that it was of no use, they might see for themselves, that no one had been there for years past.

From Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume by Yonge, Charlotte Mary