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

We asseverate it in a peculiarly earnest manner, or with increased positiveness as what can not be disputed.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

You would, of course, asseverate your innocence——" "Of course I should.

From In the Onyx Lobby by Carolyn Wells

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Who—ever told you that," she asseverated in slow syllables, "was a liar.

From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck

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

Claiming culture, it is the crudest; asseverating its pre-eminence, it is the basest; denying all outside values and virtue, it is the narrowest.

From Strictly business: more stories of the four million by O. Henry

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 J. M. (James Macmullen) Rigg

Georgie cried day and night, merely asseverating that she hated Joe, and loved Ma, and she wished people would let her alone.

From Saturday's Child by Kathleen Thompson Norris

"Yes, you did," cry I, passionately, asseverating what I have so lately and passionately denied.

From Nancy by Rhoda Broughton