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Definition of Asseverating
1. asseverate [v] - See also: asseverate
Literary usage of Asseverating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Hedaya, Or Guide: A Commentary on the Mussulman Laws by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr] [al-Marghīnānī, Charles Hamilton (1870)
"It is otherwise with respect to the child of an asseverating woman, where the
mother's tribe pay the fine on account of any offence committed by such child, ..."
2. British Policy and Opinion During the Franco-Prussian War by Dora Neill Raymond (1921)
"... to make charpie for the French wounded.1 " It is always safe to predict that
if one section of Irishmen take to asseverating that anything is white, ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"... in asseverating her innocence, tried to show that Mrs. Turner had a spite
against her. Five witnesses were called, who gave Penning a character of ..."
4. The Contemporary Review (1878)
"... and which, suspicious of metaphysics so long as Mr. Spencer is asseverating
the objectivity of the object as an aggregate of conscious stetes, ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... had not escaped the attention of the able author, who excuses the diffuseness
to which he is compelled by asseverating his determination to follow ..."
6. The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History by John Lothrop Motley (1868)
"The Count laughed the matter off as a jest, protesting that it was a mere foolish
freak, originating at the wine-table, and asseverating, with warmth, ..."
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