Asseveration

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Asseveration \As*sev`er*a"tion\, n. [L. asseveratio.]
     The act of asseverating, or that which is asseverated;
     positive affirmation or assertion; solemn declaration.
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           Another abuse of the tongue I might add, -- vehement


           asseverations upon slight and trivial occasions. --Ray.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  asseveration
       n : a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting
           evidence were necessary) [syn: {assertion}, {averment}]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  ASSEVERATION. The proof which a man gives of the truth of what be says, by
  appealing to his conscience as a witness. It differs from an oath in this,
  that by the latter he appeals to God as a witness of the truth of what he
  says, and invokes him as the avenger of falsehood and perfidy, to punish him
  if he speak not the truth. Vide Affirmation; Oath; and Merl. Quest. de
  Droit, mot Serment.