Related Clues:

• More than suggest
• Declare openly
• Admit openly and bluntly
• Declare frankly
• State strongly
• Defend, as one's rights
• State firmly
• Solemnly swear
• Posit positively
• Swear (to)
• Certify, with 'to'
• State confidently
• Declare true
• Express forcefully
• Contend