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assever, v. arch.|əˈsɛvə(r)|
[ad. L. assevērāre to assert seriously, f. as- = ad- to + sevērus serious, severe. Cf. It. asseuerare (Florio 1598).]
To asseverate: a. a thing to be, or that it is.
1581Campion in Confer. iv. (1584) D d iiij, The Jewes asseuering the obseruation of the lawe..to be necessarie. 1603Harsnet Pop. Impost. xxiii. 166 We doe not Assever that the Devil cannot say a Troth. 1637Bastwick Litany ii. 8 King James absolutely assevers..that the Pope is Antichrist.
b. with simple obj.
a1618Sylvester Job Tri. iii. 268 O! that my words (the words I now assever) Were writ. 1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. xxvii. §8 Wks. 1727 I. 145, I had heard many Particulars..assever'd by People hard to be discredited. 1826E. Irving Babylon II. vii. 222 The question being..assevered of the vision generally. |
