assertion, predication, declaration, word, averment; confirmation.
asseveration, adjuration, swearing, oath, affidavit; deposition &c
(record) 551; avouchment; assurance; protest, protestation; profession;
acknowledgment &c (assent) 488; legal pledge, pronouncement; solemn
averment, solemn avowal, solemn declaration.
remark, observation; position &c (proposition) 514, saying,
dictum, sentence, ipse dixit [Lat.].
emphasis; weight; dogmatism &c (certainty) 474; dogmatics &c 887.
V. assert; make an assertion &c n.; have one's say; say, affirm,
predicate, declare, state; protest, profess.
put forth, put forward; advance, allege, propose, propound,
enunciate, broach, set forth, hold out, maintain, contend, pronounce,
pretend.
depose, depone, aver, avow, avouch, asseverate, swear; make oath,
take one's oath; make an affidavit, swear an affidavit, put in an
affidavit; take one's Bible oath, kiss the book, vow, vitam impendere
vero [Lat.]; swear till one is black in the face, swear till one is
blue in the face, swear till all's blue; be sworn, call Heaven to
witness; vouch, warrant, certify, assure, swear by bell book and
candle.
swear by &c (believe) 484; insist upon, take one's stand upon;
emphasize, lay stress on; assert roundly, assert positively; lay down,
lay down the law; raise one's voice, dogmatize, have the last word; rap
out; repeat; reassert, reaffirm.
announce &c (information) 527; acknowledge &c (assent) 488; attest
&c (evidence) 467; adjure &c (put to one's oath) 768.
Adj. asserting &c v.; declaratory, predicatory†, pronunciative†,
affirmative, soi-disant [Fr.]; positive; certain &c 474; express,
explicit &c (patent) 525; absolute, emphatic, flat, broad, round,
pointed, marked, distinct, decided, confident, trenchant, dogmatic,
definitive, formal, solemn, categorical, peremptory; unretracted†;
predicable.
Adv. affirmatively &c adj.; in the affirmative.
with emphasis, ex-cathedra, without fear of contradiction.
as God is my witness, I must say, indeed, i' faith, let me tell
you, why, give me leave to say, marry, you may be sure, I'd have you to
know; upon my word, upon my honor; by my troth, egad, I assure you; by
jingo, by Jove, by George, &c; troth, seriously, sadly; in sadness, in
sober sadness, in truth, in earnest; of a truth, truly, perdy†, in all
conscience, upon oath; be assured &c (belief) 484; yes &c (assent) 488;
I'll warrant, I'll warrant you, I'll engage, I'll answer for it, I'll
be bound, I'll venture to say, I'll take my oath; in fact, forsooth,
joking apart; so help me God; not to mince the matter.
Phr. quoth he; dixi [Lat.].