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asseveration

NOUN
  1. a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)

How To Use asseveration In A Sentence

  • The oath of one of the initiated must counterbalance the most solemn asseveration of every one that is not acquainted with our holy secrets. Anne of Geierstein
  • For it is I think that gives the asseveration such grace and dignity, so that a small but not insignificant wrong is done when (on a couple of occasions in Posthumous Keats) his precisely guarded hope is indurated into "his statement to his brother George, in 1818, that he would be among the English poets after his death," within "a future that meant to place him 'among the English poets.' Keats's Afterlife
  • It is not expedient to burden this preliminary to my story with further details, which I do make asseveration I possess a-plenty. JERRY OF THE ISLANDS
  • In scholion 9 we read that on a certain occasion St. Patrick said, 'Dar mo dhe broth,' which is explained, 'God is able to do this if He choose'; and yet immediately after it is added that 'Dar mo dhe broth' was a sort of asseveration familiar to St. Patrick, signifying 'By my God, Judge, or judgment.' Bolougne-Sur-Mer St. Patrick's Native Town
  • The oath they bound themselves by consisted of a simple asseveration: “We will remember past offences no more;” and to this day125 the two parties live amicably together as good citizens, and the democracy is steadfast to its oaths. Hellenica
  • On all such occasions, Mr. Grimwig plants, fishes, and carpenters, with great ardour; doing everything in a very singular and unprecedented manner, but always maintaining with his favourite asseveration, that his mode is the right one. Oliver Twist
  • A friar was seated in the same car with the murderer, to whom he did not hesitate to repeat, under the seal of confession, the same false asseveration which he had made upon the place of combat, which charged the The Fair Maid of Perth
  • I do not take too seriously Bill's asseverations (as he might say) about retiring from this, that, and the other thing.
  • For it is I think that gives the asseveration such grace and dignity, so that a small but not insignificant wrong is done when (on a couple of occasions in Posthumous Keats) his precisely guarded hope is indurated into "his statement to his brother George, in 1818, that he would be among the English poets after his death," within "a future that meant to place him 'among the English poets.' Keats's Afterlife
  • Its essence is an asseveration that the physical constants must have values within extremely narrow limits in order for life to exist. The Panda's Thumb: Mark Perakh Archives
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