Related Clues:

• Put forth
• Put forward
• Declared
• Held
• Professed
• Alleged
• Defended, as one's rights
• Said positively
• Made a case for
• Stated with conviction
• Stated firmly, declared.
• Made firm statement about a dessert
• Confidently declared to be so
• Claimed that it's an asset ti get red
• Agreed to have a perfumed sound