asseverate

From Latin assevērāre, from assevērō (“I assert”).

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

1. (transitive) To declare earnestly, seriously, or positively; to affirm.
   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 1:

     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.

• asseverative

• asseveration

asseverate

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

asseverate

1. feminine singular of the past participle of asseverare

• adsevērātē

assevērātē (not comparable)

1. earnestly, emphatically

assevērāte

1. first-person plural present active imperative of assevērō

• asseverate in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)