different between assever vs asseveration

English

Etymology

Compare Old French asseverer, from Latin asseverare.

Verb

assever (third-person singular simple present assevers, present participle assevering, simple past and past participle assevered)

1. Archaic form of asseverate.

Anagrams

• Seavers, averses, re-saves, resaves

English

Etymology

From Latin assev?r?ti?, from assev?r?.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??s?v.???e?.??n/, /æs??v.???e?.??n/

Noun

asseveration (countable and uncountable, plural asseverations)

1. An earnest affirmation; a declaration of support.

   Synonyms: averment, avowal

   • 1697, Daniel Defoe, An Essay upon Projects, London: Thomas Cockerill, “Of Academies,” p. 240,^[1]

     […] no man is believ’d a jot the more for all the Asseverations, Damnings and Swearings he makes:

   • 1779, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 12, p. 146,^[2]

     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.

   • 1838, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, London: Richard Bentley, Volume 3, Chapter 51, p. 310,^[3]

     […] 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.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, London: The Bodley Head, 1937, Part 2, p. 385,^[5]

     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.

Derived terms

• asseverational

Related terms

• assever
• asseverate

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