Definition of "asseverating" [asseverating]

• Present participle of asseverate. (verb)

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• "With all due respect to the labor leaders, who are not to be blamed for volubly asseverating otherwise, terrorism is a well-defined and eminently successful policy of the labor unions."
• "One may say that linguistics has no choice but to presuppose what it can only name (without asserting — or asseverating)."
• "His quick conclusion was to explain his absence this evening by a second invitation which had come later, also by asseverating that the Griffiths being potentially in charge of his material welfare, it was becoming more and more of a duty rather than an idle, evasive pleasure to desert her in this way at their command."