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Asseverate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To declare seriously or positively; affirm.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To declare earnestly, seriously, or positively; to affirm.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To affirm or aver positively, or with solemnity.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To affirm or aver positively, or with solemnity.

Synonyms Assert, Affirm, Declare, etc. (see assert); to say, allege, protest, insist, maintain.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. state categorically

Word Usage

"What I asseverate is, that his Excellency, having the same intercourse with his horse during his exercise, that he hath with his soldiers when training them, may form and break either to every feat of war which he chooses to practise, and accordingly that this noble charger is admirably managed."

Verb Form

asseverated asseverates asseverating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

take a firm stand insist

Hyponym

aver allege predicate proclaim say

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

aver affirm protest declare stat