"asseverative" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From asseverate + -ive.",
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    {
      "form": "more asseverative",
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      "form": "most asseverative",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        "Characterized by asseveration; asserting positively."
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          "assert",
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          "ref": "2013, William M. Schniedewind, A Social History of Hebrew:, page 152:",
          "text": "A prosthetic 'aleph was added in Hebrew […] and this gave a graphemic distinction between the negative and the asseverative, but the asseverative nevertheless eventually disappeared in Hebrew and other Canaanite dialects.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Eran Cohen, The Modal System of Old Babylonian:",
          "text": "Delimiting the forms which belong to the asseverative paradigm can be achieved only for some of the forms based on morphological criteria alone.",
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        }
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        "Serving to emphasize the certainty or truth of a statement."
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        "(linguistics) Serving to emphasize the certainty or truth of a statement."
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        "linguistics",
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  "etymology_text": "From asseverate + -ive.",
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        "(linguistics) A linguistic structure that serves to emphasize the certainty or truth of a statement."
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        },
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      ],
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        "(linguistics) Serving to emphasize the certainty or truth of a statement."
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  "etymology_text": "From asseverate + -ive.",
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