AVER (averred, averring)

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Irregular inflected forms: averred    , averring   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does aver mean? 

• AVER (verb)
  The verb AVER has 2 senses:

1. report or maintain

2. to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true

  Familiarity information: AVER used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AVER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they aver    ... he / she / it avers   
Past simple: averred   
Past participle: averred   
-ing form: averring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Report or maintain

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

allege; aver; say

Context example:

The registrar says that I owe the school money

Hypernyms (to "aver" is one way to...):

assert; asseverate; maintain (state categorically)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "aver"):

plead (make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sentence example:

They aver that there was a traffic accident

Sense 2

Meaning:

To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

affirm; assert; aver; avow; swan; swear; verify

Context example:

Before God I swear I am innocent

Hypernyms (to "aver" is one way to...):

declare (state emphatically and authoritatively)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "aver"):

hold (assert or affirm)

claim; take (lay claim to; as of an idea)

attest (authenticate, affirm to be true, genuine, or correct, as in an official capacity)

declare (state firmly)

protest (affirm or avow formally or solemnly)

assure; tell (inform positively and with certainty and confidence)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sentence example:

They aver that there was a traffic accident

Derivation:

averment (a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary))

 Context examples 

“I shall never be able to trust him,” I averred, and far less now that he is blind.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

When she averred he had insulted the judge, he retorted: By telling the truth about him?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I took their word for all that they averred, and I became their disciple.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She averred she would not go an inch, not for a dozen Charleses.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

But, then, a voice within me averred that I could do it and foretold that I should do it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Which “Tom” denied; averring that he should always be equally proud of it, under all circumstances.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Walt won in the end, and his victory was most probably due to the fact that he was a man, though Madge averred that they would have had another quarter of a mile of gurgling brook, and at least two west winds sighing through their redwoods, had Wait properly devoted his energies to song-transmutation and left Wolf alone to exercise a natural taste and an unbiassed judgment.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

And yet, I aver it, and I aver it again, I was unafraid.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She averred they were a mystery to herself, and that what she knew was chiefly from conjecture.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He said I was a capricious witch, and that he would rather sing another time; but I averred that no time was like the present.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)