declare

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She divined apprehension from it rather than saw much expression in it I--declare," burst out Bo, when she could not eat any more, "this isn't believable.

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  1. transitive verb To make known formally or officially. See Synonyms at announce.
  2. transitive verb To state emphatically or authoritatively; affirm.
  3. transitive verb To reveal or make manifest; show.

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  • "I declare, they are splendid pictures Then you like them?" —  The Rover Boys on a Hunt or The Mysterious House in the Woods
  • I declare--if he isn't pulling! —  Crowded Out o' Crofield or, The Boy who made his Way
  • He had dived under the cover of the grapevine and hid in a chink between the stones, where Jasper could not find him I declare--" said Jasper Jay at last--"I declare, he's got away from me!" —  The Tale of Jasper Jay Tuck-Me-In Tales
  • She began to half believe the truth of what she had once with great astonishment heard Anne Valery declare--ay, even Anne Valery--that if the noblest moral type of man and of woman were each placed side by side, the man would be the greater of the two But this thought she kept fondly to herself, and suffered Emma to talk on without much attending to her conversation. —  Agatha's Husband A Novel
  • "I declare, here's a beast been and shoved its head into a hole, and converted its tail into a trap We all three lay down as quietly as possible, and I could not but smile when I thought of the literal correctness of my friend's quaint description of what we saw The insect was a species of ant-eater. —  The Gorilla Hunters
 

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  1. Middle English declaren, from Old French declarer, from Latin dēclārāre : dē-, intensive pref.; see de- + clārāre, to make clear (from clārus, clear; see kelə-2 in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Middle English declaren, from Old French declarer, declerer, declairier, desclairier, etc., French déclarer = Spanish Portuguese declarar = Italian dichiarire, dichiarare, from Latin declarare, make clear, manifest, show, declare, from de + clarus, clear: see clear, clarify.
 

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