asseverate

English

Etymology

From Latin assevērāre, from assevērō (I assert).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /əˈsɛvəɹeɪt/

Verb

asseverate (third-person singular simple present asseverates, present participle asseverating, simple past and past participle asseverated)

  1. (transitive) To assert earnestly, seriously, and confidently
    • 1642, Sir Richard Gurney, 1st Baronet, The Lord Maior of Londons Letter to the King at Yorke, June 22, London:
      Whereas Your Maiesty hath received true information of great sums of Money endeavoured to be borrowed of Your City of London, by directions proceeding from both Houses of Parliament [] (I Your Maiesties faithfull Subiect) doe conceive, and dare asseverate, that it is intended upon no other pretence then for the Honour and defence of Your Maiesty,
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 7, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, [], →OCLC, book 10, page 261:
      I will myself asseverate and bind it by an Oath, that the Muff thou bearest in thy Hand belonged unto Madam Sophia;
    • 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter IX, in Rob Roy. [], volume I, Edinburgh: [] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. []; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, pages 195–196:
      “And I presume you can also asseverate to his worship, that no man is better qualified than I am to bear testimony in this case, seeing that I was by you, and near you, constantly during the whole occurrence?
    • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 1, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
      The more I laughed at such theories, the more these stubborn friends asseverated them; adding that even without the heritage of legend the recent reports were too clear, consistent, detailed, and sanely prosaic in manner of telling, to be completely ignored.
    • 1971, Iris Murdoch, An Accidental Man, New York: Viking, page 31:
      A time would come, Mr. Secombe-Hughes mysteriously asseverated, when all would be well and she would get her money.

Derived terms

Translations

Italian

Verb

asseverate

  1. inflection of asseverare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Participle

asseverate f pl

  1. feminine plural of asseverato

Latin

Pronunciation

Adverb

assevērātē (not comparable)

  1. earnestly, emphatically

Alternative forms

Verb

assevērāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of assevērō

References

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