asseveration
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Just at this moment, Julia's absurd shufflings, and equivocations, and barefaced changes from one asseveration to another fill her with wrath.
From Portia or By Passions Rocked by Duchess
Heaton, 4th Jurist, new series, page 708, for the distinguishment between the words of asseveration and the essential words of an oath.
From The True Story of my Parliamentary Struggle by Bradlaugh, Charles
An asseveration made in this tone excludes the supposition of inaccuracy or careless vagueness, and the specific statements have all the force of sworn evidence.
From Supernatural Religion, Vol. III. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Cassels, Walter Richard
Peter could have made no stronger asseveration; for he highly valued the long appendage to his bushy head, and of all creatures he hated cats.
From I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success by Roe, Azel Stevens
Heaton, 4th Jurist, new series, page 708, for the distinguishment between the words of asseveration and the essential words of an oath.
From The True Story of my Parliamentary Struggle by Bradlaugh, Charles
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