Definitions
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- adverb in an
asseverating manner
Etymologies
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asseverating + -ly
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Examples
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"Three hundred dollars bail," said the sergeant at once, asseveratingly and inquiringly.
Strictly business: more stories of the four million O. Henry 1886
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Here Bob's letter crackled warningly in his waistcoat pocket as he laid his hand asseveratingly upon his breast, and he became suddenly scaled up to dumbness and gloom as before.
The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884
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