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

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

From Black Ivory by Francis B. Pearson

Let me however asseverate, from my abundance of experience in these cases, that there is ultimately, after a reasonable time, every hope of becoming sound and healthy again.

From Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects by Henry Newell Guernsey

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

From Little Aliens by Myra Kelly

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

"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

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 does not," asseverated Fabian; "on the contrary, he opposes their proceedings in the most decided manner.

From Under a Charm, Vol. II. (of III) A Novel by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

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

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

She would lie there, gazing at me, with a dumb fear in her eyes—and I would go on asseverating blindly, like an unsuccessful actor before a jeering audience.

From Sylvia's Marriage by Upton Sinclair

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

From Nancy by Rhoda Broughton

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 John Fiske