different between declaration vs asseveration

English

Etymology

From Middle English declaration, declaracion, declaracioun, from Old French declaration (French déclaration), from Latin d?cl?r?ti?nem, accusative of Latin d?cl?r?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?kl???e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

declaration (countable and uncountable, plural declarations)

1. A written or oral indication of a fact, opinion, intention, belief, etc.

2. A list of items for various legal purposes, e.g. customs declaration.
3. The act or process of declaring.
4. (cricket) The act, by the captain of a batting side, of declaring an innings closed.
5. (law) In common law, the formal document specifying plaintiff's cause of action, including the facts necessary to sustain a proper cause of action, and to advise the defendant of the grounds upon which he is being sued.
6. (computing) The specification of an object, such as a variable or function, establishing its existence but not necessarily describing its contents.

Quotations

• 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Luke 1:1

  Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...

Synonyms

• (act or process of declaring): notice
• (list of items for legal purposes): notice, statement
• (written or oral indication): avowal, notice, statement

Hyponyms

• (computing): forward declaration

Related terms

• declare

Translations

See also

• complaint
• customs declaration
• statutory
• statutory declaration

Further reading

• declaration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• indacaterol, redactional

Middle French

Noun

declaration f (plural declarations)

1. declaration

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

Translations