(v. t.) To avouch or verify; to offer to verify; to prove or justify. See Averment.
(v. t.) To affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner, as in confidence of asserting the truth.
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”.
Avow
Definition:
(v. t.) To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes.
(v. t.) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry.
(n.) Avowal.
(n.) To bind, or to devote, by a vow.
(n.) A vow or determination.
Example Sentences:
(1) How can she be so self-avowedly hip (Revolver, reefer) and yet so naive (swinging)?
(2) Discontent with the monarchy is no longer confined to avowedly republican parties or rightwingers, who have never forgiven the king for introducing democracy and transforming the state handed to him by dictator General Francisco Franco on his death in 1975, when Spain's historically fragile monarchy was restored for the second time in a century.
(3) The avowedly antisemitic National Socialists of the NRM are the extreme wing of this spectrum, Poohl says.
(4) For an avowed elitist, he had a remarkable ability to talk to a crowd.
(5) That, and the strong possibility that Obama was not referring to just those 1.5 million, but to some larger percentage of the 51% of Americans who disapprove of the job he's doing – a group that, statistically speaking, can't just consist of avowed racists.
(6) Snyder mentions Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán , who avowedly seeks the creation of an “illiberal” state, and who, says Snyder, “looks fondly on that period as one of healthy national consciousness”.
(7) But the rise of Ukip looks to me to be legitimising a very different view, in which the average English person will be characterised as an avowed Eurosceptic, a fierce opponent of immigration, a hang-'em-and-flog-'em merchant, and a hater of government.
(8) In September the telegenic Tsipras, an avowed atheist, made a trip to Rome to hold talks with Pope Francis.
(9) They are avowedly non-violent in their approach, but do not shy away from supporting specific “mujahedeen” groups in current conflicts, though this support has rarely been found to go beyond the rhetorical and is confined to wars within the Muslim world.
(10) In November 1962, six years after she left the Communist party, an MI5 officer wrote, in a file stamped “secret and personal”: “She is known to have retained extreme leftwing views and she takes an interest in African affairs as an avowed opponent of racial discrimination.
(11) In another video Shekau made an avowal that "we will continue to carry out such school attacks till our last breath".
(12) For his father, an avowed “leftist liberal”, Romanos is typical of a younger generation who, although middle-class and privileged, have been radicalised by growing up in a nation whose political establishment is blamed for the devastation wrought by its brush with bankruptcy.
(13) What DfE ministers and civil servants will make of this ideological clash is anyone’s guess but, since the avowed aim of the free school programme is to let a thousand flowers bloom, it would be surprising if Livingstone’s Hammersmith proposal failed.
(14) But they also mentioned the possibility of him cracking down on immigration, despite the mayor of London being avowedly pro-immigration .
(15) The Russian targets so far include a small number of avowedly secular fighters who have received limited backing from the United States and the Gulf states.
(16) I have remained a party member and avowedly a Trotskyist.
(17) Like Mandela, he was a black revolutionary, a prisoner turned president who avowed racial reconciliation and became a darling of the west.
(18) Factor analyses of the children's responses yielded three interpretable factors: a tendency to despise the victims of bullies; general admiration for school bullies; and avowed support for intervention to assist the victim.
(19) Sexual function after prostatectomy, particularly perirenal, has been reviewed in 128 patients treated in private practice for the past twenty years by one urologist with an avowed bias to encouraging postoperative sexual function.
(20) That may not be all that surprising given the march of Europhobia through the Tory party, but it is nevertheless striking that so many Conservatives preferred an avowed enemy of their party who describes the prime minister as a conman over their current coalition partner.