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Answer for the clue "Boldly state ", 4 letters:
aver

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Word definitions for aver in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French averer "verify," from Vulgar Latin *adverare "make true, prove to be true," from Latin ad- "to" (see ad- ) + verus "true" (see very ). Related: Averred ; averring .

Usage examples of aver.

Though Abigail had averred his invitation, she had offered to assuage his disappointment by seeing him off.

Dopo aver respirato fortemente per assicurarsi che viveva ancora, passatasi la mano sulla fronte.

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.

On their return, he bade her lie down on the sofa in her boudoir and rest, averring that she looked languid and unlike herself.

They were all men who lived with horses and professed to love them, though none knew how to bleed a horse for that was a job left to servants, but finally a Scottish major averred that he had a shrewd idea of how the thing was done, and so he was given the fleam and its hammer.

At these words my ill-temper boiled aver, and, in the tone of voice one uses to put down a puppy, I replied that the Republic of Venice was strong enough to do without the protection of France or of any other power, and that during the thirteen centuries of its existence it had had many friends and allies but no protectors.

Repubblica, che dopo aver violato infamemente il nostro territorio, impadronitasi per inganno del principale nostro porto di mare, attaccata proditoriamente la nostra capitale e ricevute delle meravigliose botte, gridava: al tradimento!

Venus must be unfitted to support human life, that where her surface is not unutterably hot it is unutterably cold, even though she be oxygenless, as they aver, yet the urge to live that is born with each of us compelled me to make the same preparations to land that I should have had I successfully reached my original goal, Mars.