asseveration

• The amount of declaration, asseveration, recrimination (chiefly journalistic), rectification, intimidation, protestation, pacification, and many other wordy processes that have been employed in almost all countries with the avowed object of maintaining peace during the last four years is in striking contrast to the small progress actually made in regard to a final settlement of either of the two great international points at issue—the limitation of armaments and compulsory arbitration. —  William of Germany
• The same asseveration is repeated in many later sonnets (cf. lv. lx. —  A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles
• Alcesimarchus in the Cistellaria wishes to make a strong asseveration, and begins:[752 at ita me di deaeque, superi et inferi et medioxumi but immediately goes on to specify these deities more particularly by their names and relationships--_and gets the latter wrong_. —  The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
• Yet what an anticlimax to the asseveration which everyone of them had made that very evening, "If I should die with Thee, I will not deny Thee in any wise!" —  The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion
• (And the excited Major used the solitary asseveration which clung to him, the last trace of his brief military experience.) —  Agatha's Husband A Novel

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