Definition of "asseverates" [asseverates]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of asseverate. (verb)

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• "If, as candidate Obama asseverates, “America is the greatest country on earth”, is there any reason not to question their patriotism?"
• "But that he was not to be, without ignorance or prejudice, mistaken for a gentleman, my father most strongly asseverates; because it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner."
• "Although Avicenna vehemently denies that universals have any extra-mental existence and although he asseverates that individuals alone exist, he maintains that a nature can be contemplated which, in itself, is neither one nor many (numerically) but is simply the nature that it intrinsically is: horseness is simply horseness."