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asseverate

/əˈsɛvəɹeɪt/

asseverate verb: to assert earnestly, seriously, and confidently.

Verb

asseverate (third-person singular simple present asseverates, present participle asseverating, simple past and past participle asseverated)

  1. (transitive) To assert earnestly, seriously, and confidently
    • Whereas Your Maiesty hath received true information of great sums of Money endeavoured to be borrowed of Your City of London, by directions proceeding from both Houses of Parliament […] (I Your Maiesties faithfull Subiect) doe conceive, and dare asseverate, that it is intended upon no other...1642, Sir Richard Gurney, 1st Baronet, The Lord Maior of Londons Letter to the King at Yorke, June 22, London
    • I will myself asseverate and bind it by an Oath, that the Muff thou bearest in thy Hand belonged unto Madam Sophia;1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 7, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book X, page 261

asseverate meaning in Tamil and Urdu

asseverate in Tamil

to asseverate, affirm
வற்புறுத்து vaṟpuṟuttu

asseverate in Urdu

حلفیہ اقرار کرنا, تشریح کرنا

Forms of asseverate

third-person singular presentasseverates
present participleasseverating
past participleasseverated
pastasseverated

Origin of asseverate

From Latin assevērāre, from assevērō (“to assert”).

Words formed from asseverate

Questions about asseverate

What does asseverate mean?
Asseverate means to assert earnestly, seriously, and confidently.
What is asseverate in Tamil?
Asseverate in Tamil is வற்புறுத்து (vaṟpuṟuttu). See Asseverate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is asseverate?
Asseverate is a verb.
How do you pronounce asseverate?
Asseverate is pronounced /əˈsɛvəɹeɪt/.
What is the past tense of asseverate?
The past tense of asseverate is asseverated.

Words near asseverate in the dictionary

  1. assetizing
  2. assetless
  3. assetlessness
  4. assets
  5. assever
  6. asseverate
  7. asseverated
  8. asseverates
  9. asseverating
  10. asseveratingly
  11. asseveration

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Adapted from Wiktionary: asseverate (page history and authors); வற்புறுத்து (Tamil) (page history and authors); asseverate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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