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

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

From Black Ivory by Francis B. Pearson

They lacked a definite opinion to entertain and a cry to asseverate.

From In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays by Augustine Birrell

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

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

"There still is in this country," he asseverated, "too great grief, too many mourners, too many wounded men for us to tolerate that."

From Time Magazine Archive

"Good gracious, Ma!" she once asseverated, in private debate, "Claire wouldn't ever think of marrying a man old enough to be her father!"

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett

Hereupon follows a lively fire of argument between Bobby and his sister; she protesting that she will not espouse a bishop, and he asseverating that she shall.

From Nancy by Rhoda Broughton

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

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 Charlotte Mary Yonge

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

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