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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.

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I am born, I shall die!" (163), a bold asseveration
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That the irreligious mind is precluded from the apperception of the values of purity would again be a rash asseveration. Humanity in general possesses an experience of these as of other moral values--though, unenlightened by religious revelation and moulding, it is mostly a stunted and rudimentary one--and sexual immorality rests, not on a literal absence of that experience but (apart from the "weakness of the flesh" proper which is apt to stifle it) on the intellectual counter-pressure of hedonistic ideologies.
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Though such an asseveration recalls Fowles's example, it is soon evident that hers is no longer the author figure encountered in the earlier novels.
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