asseveration en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /əˌsɛv.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/ (UK, US)
- /æsˌɛv.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/ (UK, US)
Etymology
From Latin assevērātiō, from assevērō.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) An earnest affirmation; a declaration of support.
The true oath consists in the simple asseveration, uttered in perfect consciousness and under a sense of the presence of God, before Him, and in Him.
1861, J[ohann] P[eter] Lange, translated by Alfred Edersheim, Theological and Homiletical Commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew. Specially Designed and Adapted for the Use of Ministers and Students., volume I, Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, […]; London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co.; Dublin: John Robertson, page 228: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.
a. 1777, David Hume, part XII, inDialogues Concerning Natural Religion, [London?], published 1779, page 146:[…] no man is believ’d a jot the more for all the Aſſeverations, Damnings and Swearings he makes: […]
1693 (date written), D. F. [pseudonym; Daniel Defoe], An Essay upon Projects, London: […] R. R. for Tho[mas] Cockerill, […], published 1697, →OCLC, page 240:[…] 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.
1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “And Last”, in Oliver Twist; […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 310: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.
1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 385:
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| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| asseverations | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (7)
fi vakuutus (earnest affirmation) · bg твърдение (earnest affirmation) · ca asseveració (earnest affirmation) · la assevērātiō (earnest affirmation) · ko 단언 (earnest affirmation) · de Beteuerung (earnest affirmation) · bg заявление (earnest affirmation)