Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To asseverate.
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- transitive verb Archaic See
asseverate .
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- verb Archaic form of
asseverate .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In his first Discourse he begins by appreciating the specious splendour of modern enlightenment, the voyages of man's intellect among the stars, and then goes on to assever that in the first place men have lost, through their civilisation, the original liberty for which they were born, and that arts and science, flinging garlands of flowers on the iron chains which bind them, make them love their slavery; and secondly that there is a real depravity beneath the fair semblance and "our souls are corrupted as our sciences and arts advance to perfection."
The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth 1894
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"Facility to believe, impatience to doubt, temerity to assever, glory to know, doubt to contradict, end to gain, sloth to search, seeking things in words, resting in a part of nature -- these and the like have been the things which have forbidden the happy match between the mind of man and the nature of things, and in place thereof have married it to vain notions and blind experiments ....
Bacon John Morley 1852
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