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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To affirm positively; declare.
  2. v. Law To assert formally as a fact.
  3. v. Law To justify or prove.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To assert the truth of.
  2. To confirm; verify; prove to be true.
  3. To affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner.
  4. In law, to avouch or verify; offer to verify; allege as a fact.
  5. To assert the existence of; offer in evidence.
  6. Synonyms Affirm, Declare, etc. (see assert), say, allege, protest, insist, maintain.
  7. n. Substance; property; estate.
  8. n. plural Live stock; cattle; domestic animals.—
  9. n. A beast of burden; a draft-ox or draft-horse; an old horse.

Wiktionary

  1. n. obsolete Possessions, property, belongings, wealth.
  2. n. dialectal A work-horse, working ox, or other beast of burden.
  3. v. To assert the truth of, to affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner.
  4. v. law To prove or justify a plea.
  5. v. obsolete To avouch, prove, or verify; to offer to verify.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Obs. or Dial. Eng. A work horse, or working ox.
  2. v. obsolete To assert, or prove, the truth of.
  3. v. (Law) To avouch or verify; to offer to verify; to prove or justify. See Averment.
  4. v. To affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner, as in confidence of asserting the truth.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
  2. v. report or maintain

Etymologies

  1. From French avérer, from Late Latin *advērāre, from ad + vērus ("true"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English averren, from Old French averer, from Vulgar Latin *advērāre : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin vērus, true. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (5)

Words with the same meaning

  1. asseverate
  1. affirm
  1. assert
  1. prove
  1. state

same context (11)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. possano
  2. passato
  1. liberta
  2. contenta
  1. pochi
  2. fosse
  1. dopo
  2. avvenimenti
  1. voglio
  2. esso
  1. famiglia

rhymes (20)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Laver
  2. baver
  3. braver
  4. caver
  1. craver
  2. disfavor
  3. engraver
  4. favor
  1. flavor
  2. graver
  3. laver
  4. paver
  1. quaver
  2. raver
  3. saver
  4. savor
  1. shaver
  2. staver
  3. waiver
  4. waver

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. protest
  2. aiver
  1. havoir
  2. assert
  1. misaver
  2. asseverate
  1. affirm
  2. vouch
  1. allege
  2. profess
  1. state
  2. threap

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  • bilby Mmmm, frowning dictionaries. Jun 2, 2010

  • dbekeny CORONER
    As Coroner, I must aver
    I thoroughly examined her.
    And she's not only merely dead,
    She's really, most sincerely dead.
    Jun 2, 2010

  • vanishedone This turns up in some old compound forms: aver-silver, averpenny, aver-corn, averland. The O.E.D. quotes sources that associate it with average in this context, but frowns at their 'very doubtful value'. Jan 10, 2009

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