have averred
- present perfect of aver.
Example Sentences
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Well, now, that the statute has said; and we have averred and proved the commission such as it is.
From Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by Warburton, A. F.
Some writers have averred that Caligula looked on Taurus Antinor as a kind of personal fetish who kept the wrath of the gods averted from his imperial head.
From "Unto Caesar" by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
Here still exists the chamber in which tradition says the 'noble outlaw' died, and also the grave, at a cross-bow shot from it, where long generations of men have averred his dust reposes.
From The Bront? Family, Vol. 1 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? by Leyland, Francis A.
This, and not a personal hatred of monks, as his enemies have averred, was the moving spring of his actions in this crusade of the pen.
From The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales by Camus, Jean Pierre
Some critics have averred that to declare a drama3 as being not for the stage is to make an announcement whose subject and predicate cancel each other.
From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas
