asseverate
Verb

asseverate (asseverates, present participle asseverating; past and past participle asseverated)

  1. (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.
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