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)
- (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
Related terms
Translations
declare earnestly
Italian
Verb
asseverate
- inflection of asseverare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Latin
Pronunciation
- assevērātē: (Classical) IPA(key): /as.se.u̯eːˈraː.teː/, [äs̠ːeu̯eːˈräːt̪eː]
- assevērātē: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /as.se.veˈra.te/, [äsːeveˈräːt̪e]
- assevērāte: (Classical) IPA(key): /as.se.u̯eːˈraː.te/, [äs̠ːeu̯eːˈräːt̪ɛ]
- assevērāte: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /as.se.veˈra.te/, [äsːeveˈräːt̪e]
Alternative forms
References
- asseverate in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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