Crossword clues for asseverate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Asseverate \As*sev"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Asseverated; p. pr. & vb. n. Asseverating.] [L. asseveratus, p. p. of asseverare to assert seriously or earnestly; ad + severus. See Severe.] To affirm or aver positively, or with solemnity.
Syn: To affirm; aver; protest; declare. See Affirm.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. To declare earnestly, seriously, or positively; to affirm.
WordNet
Usage examples of "asseverate".
Could we see as cogent a motive for asseverating his guilt as we find for his insisting upon his innocence, we should lend as much credence to the one as to the other.
This libel on our national oath, and this accusation of all our countrymen of being in the daily practice of solemnly asseverating the most enormous falsehood, I fear deserves the notice of a more active Attorney General than that here alluded to.
This, however, seemed to Teddy too much to pay, so, when the time of reckoning came, he stoutly asseverated that there were but sixty packages.
Toogood asseverated that there was no such thing as surplus population, and that the land, properly managed, would maintain twenty times its present inhabitants.
It was to no purpose that the widow Masson repeated and asseverated that she recognised him as her tenant Ducoudray, and that he had had a large case of wine taken down into the cellar.
Much was the ridicule heaped upon the hopeful, trustful ones, who declared and repeatedly asseverated to the contrary.
But that he was not to be, without ignorance or prejudice, mistaken for a gentleman, my father most strongly asseverates.
With all due respect to the labor leaders, who are not to be blamed for volubly asseverating otherwise, terrorism is a well-defined and eminently successful policy of the labor unions.