aver
verb (used with object)
to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner.
has averred
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present perfectof aver (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Every Christian nation has averred that God was on its side in conflict.
From Time Magazine Archive
It that be true Gradasso has averred, That knight should win the arms he would assay, Thou hast no title to my white-winged bird, Save this from me thou first shalt bear away.
From Orlando Furioso by William Stewart Rose
He speaks of some eccentric person who has averred that a ‘fetish’ is a ‘totem,’ inhabited by ‘an ancestral spirit.’
From Modern Mythology by Andrew Lang
A recent traveler has averred that he found many persons perusing them in the reading-rooms of Athens.
From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by J. F. (John Fletcher) Hurst
