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asseveration

WordNet
  1. (n) asseveration
    a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Asseveration
    The act of asseverating, or that which is asseverated; positive affirmation or assertion; solemn declaration. "Another abuse of the tongue I might add, -- vehement asseverations upon slight and trivial occasions."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) asseveration
    The act of asseverating; positive affirmation or assertion; solemn declaration.
  2. (n) asseveration
    That which is asseverated; an emphatic assertion.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Asseveration
    any solemn affirmation or confirmation
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary L. asseveratio,

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary L. asseverāre, -ātum—ad, to, severus, serious. See Severe.

Usage in the news

Some smart people might go their entire lives without ever using the word asseverate. twincities.com

Usage in scientific papers

Thus, unfortunately, we must qualify as incorrect the asseverations of Zhang (2007) about the validity of his Lemmas 2, 3 and consequences, under multiplicity assumptions of singular values and eigenvalues.
Measures and Jacobians of singular random matrices

Usage in literature

There was, however, quite sufficient evidence to convict Delessert of the crime, notwithstanding his persistent asseverations of innocence. "Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442" by Various

Be a man, sir, and asseverate your independence. "Frank Oldfield" by T.P. Wilson

It has not occurred to her that his words are a question rather than an asseveration. "April's Lady" by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

No one appeared to think it worth while to asseverate the fact, for it was self-evident. "Black Ivory" by R.M. Ballantyne

Let not the English be deceived by their asseverations. "Diary in America, Series Two" by Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)

What is the spell in his asseveration 250 More than in mine? "The Works of Lord Byron" by Lord Byron

Many expletives are ancient religious formulas of objurgation, obsecration, asseveration, anathema, etc. "Folkways" by William Graham Sumner

The woman trembling asseverated that she and her children had eaten them. "The Boy Slaves" by Mayne Reid

This, really, was not at all bad in quality nor scanty in quantity, as the irate master's mate asseverated with considerable heat. "Crown and Anchor" by John Conroy Hutcheson

We shall presently know more of these asseverations. "The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851" by Various