What's the difference between asseveration and averment?

Asseveration


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of asseverating, or that which is asseverated; positive affirmation or assertion; solemn declaration.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Treatment choice and effectiveness in prosthodontics has largely depended on educated anecdote and asseveration.
  • (2) Finally, on the basis of the information presented, several conclusions are reached which make it possible to asseverate that the teaching of preventive and social medicine is not given the importance it merits, in the study plan of any medical school in the country.
  • (3) In order to confirm or to discard this asseveration an in-vitro lymphocyte transformation test was realized, with the venous peripherical blood of each patient, using the greater determinative of penicillin: the peniciloil.

Averment


Definition:

  • (v. t.) The act of averring, or that which is averred; affirmation; positive assertion.
  • (v. t.) Verification; establishment by evidence.
  • (v. t.) A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The maximum percentage difference between observations was 46% (AVER).
  • (2) Thereafter, ministers alone should make such warnings public, and then only when there is a real prospect that they might aver a tragedy.
  • (3) Correlation coefficients for measurements obtained by two independent observers in 44 studies ranged from r = 0.87 (AVER) to r = 0.96 (TPFR) but spontaneous changes of up to 52% occurred (AVFR).
  • (4) The German and the European common interests coincide, Merkel avers, echoing Helmut Kohl's mantra in the era of Maastricht and German reunification 20 years ago.
  • (5) The protest camp in Ramadi was, Maliki averred, an al-Qaida headquarters.
  • (6) There are others who might aver that the bathroom bashfulness would be unusual during a live burglary, never mind one taking place under the obvious time pressures that would be dictated by it happening in one of the most heavily protected gated communities in one of the most security-obsessed countries on Earth.
  • (7) Gated blood pool studies were performed one week apart in 42 patients and between study correlation coefficients for these measurements ranged from r = 0.58 (TPER) to r = 0.99 (PFR) but there were spontaneous changes in measurements of up to 82% (AVER).
  • (8) The averaged acoustic evoked responses (AAER) exhibit more sensitivity to halothane than the averaged visual evoked responses (AVER).
  • (9) Like vacuoles, "peroxisomal" fractions isolated from yeast spheroplasts as described by Avers[1] contain only one catalase protein, catalase A.
  • (10) Residents aver that women's "naturally" weaker constitutions and a moral imperative to worry places them at greater risk for nerves.
  • (11) Prince declares war on touts as his ticket sales are postponed Read more Paisley Park, the lyrics aver, is filled with laughing children on see-saws and “colourful people” with expressions that “speak of profound inner peace”, whatever they look like.
  • (12) Authors of most textbooks of dermatology and dermatopathology consider guttate parapsoriasis and digitate dermatosis to be variants of small plaque parapsoriasis which, they aver, is not related to mycosis fungoides.
  • (13) Acute toxicity, androgenic, gonadotropic, estrogenic and aphrodisiac effect of the whole medical plant Lithospermum aver arvense and its seeds was investigated on white rats and white mice.
  • (14) An assessment was made of the reproducibility (between study differences) interobserver variability and intraobserver variability of 7 radionuclide measurements describing both resting left ventricular ejection (ejection fraction--EF, average ejection rate--AVER, peak ejection rate--PER, time to peak ejection rate--TPER) and filling (average filling rate--AVFR, peak filling rate--PFR, time to peak filling rate--TPFR).
  • (15) A Corbyn-led Labour can never win the 2020 UK general election, they aver.
  • (16) After operation, despite the clinical improvement, the alterations of AVERs or DPs were very marked and in some cases became even more important than before.
  • (17) Important changes in AVER (in amplitude and latency) were found in the patients with tumours on the midline or in one of the frontal lobes.
  • (18) But the Catholic church, avers Francis, is not an exclusive community of the just, but a big tent of sinners.
  • (19) He averred that the whippings had made him "one of the best artists in the world".
  • (20) Should the CIA or JSOC wish to convince the president to do so, they must aver that they have “near certainty that the target is present”, civilians won’t be harmed, “capture is not feasible” and “no other reasonable alternatives exist”.