asseverate
Verb
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Verb
asseverate (asseverates, present participle asseverating; past and past participle asseverated)
- (transitive) To declare earnestly, seriously, or positively; to affirm.
- 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 1:
- The more I laughed at such theories, the more these stubborn friends asseverated them; adding that even without the heritage of legend the recent reports were too clear, consistent, detailed, and sanely prosaic in manner of telling, to be completely ignored.
- 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 1:
- German: beteuern
- Italian: asseverare
- Spanish: aseverar
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