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Asseverate Declare Uh Sev Uh Rayt Transitive Verb Affirm Positively Earnestly

To 'asseverate' is to affirm or declare something positively and earnestly.

To 'asseverate' is to affirm or declare something positively and earnestly.

Front asseverate \uh-SEV-uh-rayt\
Back transitive verb
To affirm or declare positively or earnestly.

[From Latin asseverare (to declare in earnest), from severus (serious). Ultimately from the Indo-European root segh- (to hold), which is also the source of words such as hectic, scheme, scholar, and cathect.]

"I asseverate from experience that some of my correspondence opponents do make use of a program." - Peter Gibbs; Pastimes: Chess; Birmingham Post (UK); Oct 9, 2004. 

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