Crossword clues for aver
aver
- State openly
- Solemnly swear
- Say with certainty
- State vehemently
- State emphatically
- Declare confidently
- Assert confidently
- Make a claim
- Declare true
- Declare as true
- State clearly
- Say forcefully
- Declare solemnly to be true
- State formally
- Say with confidence
- Say with assurance
- Say and mean
- Declare assertively
- State with authority
- Say assuredly
- Make an assertion
- Declare affirmatively
- Assert as fact
- Affirm solemnly
- State with surety
- State as true
- Solemnly declare
- Firmly declare
- Assert as true
- Affirm with confidence
- Strongly assert
- State publicly
- State assuredly
- Solemnly affirm
- Say it isn't faux
- Say for certain
- Report or maintain
- Not just suggest
- Emphatically state
- Declare with conviction
- Declare definitively
- Allege as true
- Swear out a statement
- Strongly say it's so
- State without doubt
- State with firmness
- State with confirmation
- State pointblank
- Speak positively
- Proclaim confidently
- Positively posit
- Orate with assurance
- Make a definitive statement
- Confidently say
- Categorically state
- Allege or assert
- Affirmatively allege
- Affirm with certainty
- To declare as true
- Swear it's so
- Strongly express
- State with force
- State that it's so
- State surely
- State for sure
- State decisively
- State as truth
- Solemnly state
- Say without a doubt
- Say to be so
- Say seriously
- Say is so
- Say convincingly
- Put forth firmly
- Profess as fact
- Positively state
- Opposite of "question"
- Make the case
- Make a declaration
- Hold as true
- Firmly state
- Express zero doubt about
- Express confidently
- Emphatically claim to be true
- Declare strongly
- Declare solemnly as true
- Declare forcefully
- Declare doubtlessly
- Confidently state
- Confidently claim
- Confidently affirm
- Claim with confidence
- Boldly state
- Assert formally
- Assert assertively
- Assert as accurate
- Announce assuredly
- Allege: Law
- Maintain
- Declare openly
- Express an opinion
- Affirm as true
- Swear to be true
- Back up, in a way
- Declare positively
- State firmly and positively
- State categorically
- Have one's say
- Profess as true
- Say for sure
- Allege as fact
- Say so
- Say it's so
- Confirm
- Declare firmly
- Declare as fact
- Affirm confidently
- Declare with confidence
- Say positively
- Assert positively
- Declare with certainty
- Affirm positively
- Say confidently
- State confidently
- Posit positively
- Not just surmise
- Claim with conviction
- Hold true
- State unequivocally
- State with conviction
- Avouch
- State as fact
- Say with conviction
- Make known
- Certify
- More than conjecture
- Assert as a fact
- More than suggest
- Contend
- State forcefully
- State boldly
- Not equivocate about
- Asseverate
- State definitively
- State with emphasis
- Say it is so
- Verify
- See 63 Across
- State solemnly
- State as a fact
- Depose
- State with assurance
- State positively
- Say it and mean it
- State absolutely
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- Say with authority
- Predicate
- State with confidence
- Testify
- Swear up and down
- Give a deposition
- Insist
- Allege as a fact
- Declare decisively
- Claim confidently
- State peremptorily
- Make an unequivocal statement
- State for the record
- State in no uncertain terms
- Protest or testify
- State to be true
- Affirm or confirm
- Assert strongly
- Claim or affirm
- State with certainty
- Make a statement
- Attest firmly
- Mean to conceal age and state
- Assert to be the case
- Claim a minister's coming round
- A rebellious vicar’s protest
- State's mean, cutting time
- State to be the case
- State body dismisses dishonourable man
- Assert, state
- Prove to be true when party's leader falls
- Declare a vicar has turned up
- Declare a cleric briefly is uplifted
- State strongly
- Declare to be true
- State point-blank
- Openly declare
- Say out loud
- Assert with confidence
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 offer to verify; to prove or justify. See Averment.
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To affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner, as in confidence of asserting the truth.
It is sufficient that the very fact hath its foundation in truth, as I do seriously aver is the case.
--Fielding.Then all averred I had killed the bird.
--Coleridge.Syn: To assert; affirm; asseverate. See Affirm.
Aver \A"ver\ ([=a]"v[~e]r), n. [OF. aver domestic animal, whence LL. averia, pl. cattle. See Habit, and cf. Average.] A work horse, or working ox. [Obs. or Dial. Eng.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context obsolete English) possessions, property, belongings, wealth. Etymology 2
vb. 1 to assert the truth of, to affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner. 2 (context legal English) To prove or justify a ple
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3 (context obsolete English) To avouch, prove, or verify; to offer to verify. Etymology 3
n. (context dialectal English) A work-horse, working ox, or other beast of burden.
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 I swear I am innocent" [syn: affirm, verify, assert, avow, swan, swear]
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.