asseverv.
/əˈsɛvə/, U.S. /əˈsɛvər/ archaic.
To asseverate:
a. a thing to be, or that it is.
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the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [verb (transitive)] > a thing to be or that it is
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1583 A. Nowell et al. True Rep. Disput. E. Campion sig. Dd4 The Jewes asseuering the obseruation of the lawe..to be necessarie.
1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures xxiii. 166 We doe not Assever that the Devil cannot say a Troth.
1637 J. Bastwick Answer to Exceptions against Letany ii. 8/1 King Iames absolvtely assevers..that the Pope is Antichrist.
b. with simple object.
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the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [verb (transitive)]
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to make oneself strongc1425
maintain?c1430
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to take on1583
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a1618 J. Sylvester Iob Triumphant in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 919 O! that my words (the words I now asseuer) Were writ.
1700 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding (new ed.) ii. xxvii. 182 I had heard many particulars..assevered by People hard to be discredited.
1826 E. Irving Babylon II. vii. 222 The question being..assevered of the vision generally.
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