What does asseveration mean?
Asseveration means An earnest affirmation; a declaration of support..
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/əˌsɛv.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/ · noun
An earnest affirmation; a declaration of support..
[…] no man is believ’d a jot the more for all the Aſſeverations, Damnings and Swearings he makes: […]
Custom-houſe oaths and political oaths are but little regarded even by ſome who pretend to principles of honeſty and religion: and a Quaker’s aſſeveration is with us juſtly put upon the ſame footing with the oath of any other perſon.
[…] on all such occasions Mr. Grimwig plants, fishes, and carpenters with great ardour, doing everything in a very singular and unprecedented manner; but always maintaining, with his favourite asseveration, that his mode is the right one.
The true oath consists in the simple asseveration, uttered in perfect consciousness and under a sense of the presence of God, before Him, and in Him.
After this homily which he delivered with much warmth of asseveration Mr Mulligan in a trice put off from his hat a kerchief with which he had shielded it.
Use asseveration when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Asseveration means An earnest affirmation; a declaration of support..
Common synonyms include averment, avowal, assertion.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] no man is believ’d a jot the more for all the Aſſeverations, Damnings and Swearings he makes: […]
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