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Answer for the clue "Saying with conviction ", 8 letters:
averring

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See aver

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vb. (present participle of aver English)

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Aver \A*ver"\ ([.a]*v[~e]r"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Averred ([.a]*v[~e]rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Averring .] [F. av['e]rer, LL. adverare, averare; L. ad + versus true. See Verity .] To assert, or prove, the truth of. [Obs.] (Law) To avouch or verify; to ...

Usage examples of averring.

And so he recounted the whole story from first to last, the occasion of his melancholy, its several moods, their conflict, and with which of them the victory rested, averring that he was dying of love for Sophronia, and that, knowing how ill such love beseemed him, he had, for penance, elected to die, and deemed the end was now not' far off.

But when well filled with some of the brandy from the hold of the other prize ship, certain humbler members of the Sicilian lugger's crew had waxed more voluble, averring that the ship had indeed borne no cargo in the last three trips, either, only passengers, noble passengers, mostly.

Smithers offered to take the boy back and "do well by him," averring that the father wished his son to remain where he left him, and follow the profession to which he was trained.