asseveration
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Etymology[edit]
From Latin assevērātiō, from assevērō.
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Noun[edit]
asseveration (countable and uncountable, plural asseverations)
- An earnest affirmation; a declaration of support.
- 1697, Daniel Defoe, An Essay upon Projects, London: Thomas Cockerill, “Of Academies,” p. 240,[1]
- […] no man is believ’d a jot the more for all the Asseverations, Damnings and Swearings he makes:
- 1779, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 12, p. 146,[2]
- Custom-house oaths and political oaths are but little regarded even by some who pretend to principles of honesty and religion: and a Quaker’s asseveration is with us justly put upon the same footing with the oath of any other person.
- 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], chapter 51, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 558204586, page 310:
- […] 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.
- 1865, Johann Peter Lange, The Gospel according to Matthew[3], page 117:
- The true oath consists in the simple asseveration, uttered in perfect consciousness on solemn occasions […]
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, London: The Egoist Press, published October 1922, OCLC 2297483, part II [Odyssey], page 385:
- After this homily which he delivered with much warmth of asseveration Mr Mulligan in a trice put off from his hat a kerchief with which he had shielded it.
- 1697, Daniel Defoe, An Essay upon Projects, London: Thomas Cockerill, “Of Academies,” p. 240,[1]
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earnest affirmation
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