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Declared positively
Answer for the clue "Declared positively ", 7 letters:
averred
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: aver )
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Word definitions in WordNet
v. report or maintain; "He alleged that he was the victim of a crime"; "He said it was too late to intervene in the war"; "The registrar says that I owe the school money" [syn: allege , say ] to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God ...
Usage examples of averred.
Thomas of BecketDon Diegoalso just back from a trip of a personal nature, having to do, he solemnly averred, with the good of his souland a handful of bodyguards and servants, boarded one of the smaller ships of his personal fleet, sailed up to Hull, there borrowed horses from the resident royal garrison, and rode from there to York.
The very innovative Sir Pete was now working to formulate a decent shampoo, but had not yet gotten it to the production stage, he had averred when last he and Bass had talked.
To him Perry averred that his mother and brother, Joan and Richard Perry, had murdered Harrison!
Again, Lennox, on oath, averred that, as they rode to Perth, James told him the story of the lure, the pot of gold.
Once peace came, she averred, the price of property in England would rise steeply, which made it all the more sensible to sail home now and find a London house.
Lady Spindacre averred, not in front of the people the two friends intended to court.
The situation, he averred, need not be too damp for immortality, with due care.
She averred they were a mystery to herself, and that what she knew was chiefly from conjecture.
Lady Spindacre averred, not in front of the people the two friends intended to court.
Frederickson averred, would be sufficient to persuade Henri Lassan to travel to England.
She averred they were a mystery to herself, and that what she knew was chiefly from conjecture.
When Bass got back to Norwich and placed their assignment to his own staff, he once more thanked the lucky star under which he had captured the then-Crusader Baron Melchoro years ago, for the Portuguese nobleman averred to know the Port of Gijon quite well and was able to elucidate certain things left unclear by the charts furnished Bass by agents of the king.
They had been protected from the huge beasts by an enigmatic race of bearded white-skinned men she had called the Old Onesmen who could, she averred, talk to almost all the animals and make them friendly toward mankind and his endeavors.
The islanders averred that the screams of those roasting men could be heard all over the island that fell night, even above the roaring of the tempest and the crashings of the towering seas.
He was called by many the second most powerful man in all of the Kingdom of Scotland, and a smaller number averred him even more powerful than the new-crowned king, James VI Steward Mac anToisich, but beyond the holdings of the Regulus, few men voiced this opinion loudly, if at all.