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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

AVER', v.t [See Verify.]
To affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive or peremptory manner, as in confidence of asserting the truth.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: 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, aver, say]
2: to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent" [syn: affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (averred; averring) Etymology: Middle English averren, from Anglo-French averer, from Medieval Latin adverare to confirm as authentic, from Latin ad- + verus true — more at very Date: 15th century 1. a. to verify or prove to be true in pleading a cause b. to allege or assert in pleading 2. to declare positively

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (averred, averring) assert, affirm. Etymology: ME f. OF averer (as AD-, L verus true)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.]

Webster's 1913 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.] 1. To assert, or prove, the truth of. [Obs.] 2. (Law) To avouch or verify; to offer to verify; to prove or justify. See Averment. 3. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(avers, averring, averred) If you aver that something is the case, you say very firmly that it is true. (FORMAL) He avers that chaos will erupt if he loses... 'Entertaining is something that everyone in the country can enjoy,' she averred. = declare VERB: V that, V with quote, also V

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Assert, declare, asseverate, protest, avouch, allege, say, pronounce, predicate. See affirm.

Moby Thesaurus

acknowledge, affirm, allege, announce, annunciate, argue, assert, assever, asseverate, attest, avouch, avow, bear witness, certify, contend, declare, defend, depone, depose, disclose, enunciate, express, give evidence, have, hold, insist, issue a manifesto, justify, lay down, maintain, manifesto, nuncupate, predicate, proclaim, profess, pronounce, protest, put, put it, quote, recite, relate, say, set down, speak, speak out, speak up, stand for, stand on, state, submit, swear, testify, vouch, warrant, witness