asseverationn.
/əˌsɛvəˈreɪʃən/ 1. The action of asseverating; solemn affirmation, emphatic assertion, positive declaration, avouchment.
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the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [noun]
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vouchmenta1670
1566 Briefe Exam. Certaine Declar. sig. ******2v You so confidently bare the matter downe with your vndoubted asseueration.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. G3 Men ought..to propound things sincerely, with more or lesse asseueration: as they stand in a man's owne iudgement, prooued more or lesse. View more context for this quotation
1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 215 Asseveration blust'ring in your face Makes contradiction such an hopeless case.
2. That which is asseverated; a solemn or emphatic declaration or assertion.
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the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [noun] > an assertion, affirmation, or positive declaration
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1551 T. Cranmer Answer S. Gardiner 75 Suche abomynable and beastly asseuerations as you neuer heard.
1658 T. Wall God's Revenge 25 The wise man's constant asseveration, by pride only cometh contention.
1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom II. li. 135 Incensed at this asseveration, which he was not prepared to refute.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 520 In spite of the solemn asseverations of his wife and his servants.
3. Emphatic confirmation of a statement; a word or phrase used to express confirmation; an oath.
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the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [noun] > solemn
oathOE
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1602 T. Fitzherbert Apol. 11 a I do first make the same asseueration as before vpon my Saluation.
1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 57 Both Hands smitten together..doth affirme with Rhetoricall asseveration.
a1672 P. Sterry Disc. Freedom of Will (1675) 167 It is brought..with a twofold Asseveration; ‘Yea, even.’
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xxxi. 112 The serjeant rejoined with many choice asseverations that he didn't.
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