asseveration
Example Sentences
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John indeed follows up his statement of what he saw with an unusually strong asseveration that what he says is true.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Marcus Dods
I venture to add, with all possible energy of asseveration, that I did that thing, Nim.
From Quodlibet by John Pendleton Kennedy
To swear by her name was to give to the asseveration the sanctity of inviolable truth.
From Women of England by Bartlett Burleigh James
The brethren raised their hands in solemn asseveration and, like a pillar of sacred sacrificial incense, the steamy cloud from thirty throats rose to Heaven in one united breath, "We swear it!"
From The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister by Wilhelmine von Hillern
The only five minutes during which he had appeared really awake had been when some one in the smoking-room repeated Julian Grant's asseveration that the German atrocity stories were "faked."
From The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins
