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Synonyms for asseveration

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Synonyms for asseveration

a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)

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He knew some anecdotes about the heroes of the turf, and various clever tricks of Marquesses and Viscounts which seemed to prove that blood asserted its pre-eminence even among black-legs; but the minute retentiveness of his memory was chiefly shown about the horses he had himself bought and sold; the number of miles they would trot you in no time without turning a hair being, after the lapse of years, still a subject of passionate asseveration, in which he would assist the imagination of his hearers by solemnly swearing that they never saw anything like it.
"You've said enough, Paul," interrupted the female, laying her hand on his mouth, with a familiarity that gave something very like the lie direct, to his intended asseveration. "Our secret will be safe, with this honest old man.
His old sweetheart, being in fact so near at hand that she was then reclining against him in a flutter, a very substantial angle of forty-five degrees, here interposed to assure Mistress Affery with greater earnestness than directness of asseveration, that what she heard should go no further, but should be kept inviolate, 'if on no other account on Arthur's--sensible of intruding in being too familiar Doyce and Clennam's.'
'Then,' resumed Miss Twinkleton, 'all I can say is, that I am bound to believe, on your asseveration, that it is very poor indeed.
"In the second place, I demand a plain proof, which does not depend on your personal asseveration, of the date at which my wife left Blackwater Park and travelled to London."
Junaid Qureshi, Director of Amsterdam-based European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS) said, "Khan's asseverations lead to some very significant conclusions about the Pakistani government and its policy towards terrorism".
When you read the staggering, mind-boggling, specious and impossible claims, averments, asseverations and adumbrations in the media that suggest that the Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, sat alone in his room to write the list of aspirants or candidates for the 2019 elective positions in the state, you cannot but wonder the level of descent of some political traducers.
Fuhrmann notes the narrator's insistence on veracity and his concern for credibility and concludes that, despite all these asseverations to the contrary, Paul was most probably a product of Jerome's imagination.
In an extended assessment of the back and forth that had appeared in the National Review, the Deutsche Revue, and more recently in The Times, it was determined that, contrary to the Kaiser's asseverations, the proposed intervention had been entirely a "German initiative." (118) The official reaction in England, France and Russia thus mirrored the public reaction.
In addition the small amount of trials, due to the fact that this is an exploratory study, does not allow making conclusive asseverations. However, the findings here encourage us to follow this path, exploring other nonverbal cues, as could be gaze direction or other pattern in utterances as the shorter ones.
For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics." Bertrand Russell has stated that pure mathematics consists of "entirely of such asseverations as that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything then such and such another proposition is true of that thing" (Bogomolny, 2013).
Quite contrary to the baseless asseverations of the complainants, the text of the BBL itself reveals that it espouses an enduring peace, the affidavit read.