asseveration noun.
[ǝsɛvǝ'reɪʃ(ǝ)n] M16.[Latin asseveratio(n-), formed as ASSEVERATE: see -ATION.](A) solemn affirmation; (an) emphatic declaration or confirmation; an oath.
■ Bacon Men ought..to propound things sincerely, with more or less asseueration, as they stand in a man's own iudgement. ■ Smollett Incensed at this asseveration, which he was not prepared to refute. ■ Dickens The sergeant rejoined with many choice asseverations that he didn't. ■ a'sseverative adjective pertaining to or of the nature of asseveration
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