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"etymology_text": "From Middle English averren, from Old French averer, from Early Medieval Latin advērō, a verb derived from Latin vērus (“true”). Compare Modern French avérer.",
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"participle",
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"ref": "1660, Samuel Fisher, “[Rusticus ad Academicos in Exercitationibus Expostulatoriis, Apologeticis Quatuor. The Rustick’s Alarm to the Rabbies: Or, The Country Correcting the University and Clergy, and (Not without Good Cause) Contesting for the Truth, against the Nursing Mothers and Their Children. In Four Apologetical and Expostulatory Exercitations; …] The Third Apologetical, and Expostulatory Exercitation”, in The Testimony of Truth Exalted, […], [London?]: [s.n.], published 1679, →OCLC, chapter I, page 411",
"text": "Now as to the Scriptures being the Word of God, and evidently known to be ſo, or evidencing themſelves to be ſo, and that of right, and properly they are to be ſo called; all which thou J. O. very abſolutely averreſt, […]",
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"ref": "1701, Lawrence Smith, “[First Discourse on 2 Timothy 1:10]”, in The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Or, The Immortality of the Human Soul, and the Separate Condition thereof in the Other World, Asserted and Made Manifest: […], London: […] Thomas Speed, […], →OCLC, page 1",
"text": "[T]he partial Infidel […] averreth the Sleep or Inſenſibility of the Soul both in good and bad perſons, from the time of their Deceaſe hence until their Reſurrection; […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1939 August 25, “Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead”, in Yip Harburg (lyrics), Harold Arlen (music), The Wizard of Oz (soundtrack), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer",
"text": "As Coroner, I must aver, I thoroughly examined her. / And she's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1997, Frederick W. Case, Jr., Roberta B. Case, “The North American Trilliums”, in Trilliums, Portland, Or.: Timber Press, page 109",
"text": "Horticulturalist Richard Lighty has a form [of Trillium grandiflorum] that he avers to open almost a cerise-red.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2007 July 26, European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), Peev v. Bulgaria (Application no. 64209/01), Strasbourg, paragraph 19",
"text": "In the meantime, on 5 June 2000, the applicant had brought a civil action against the Prosecutor's Office. He alleged that the termination of his contract had been unlawful and sought reinstatement and compensation for loss of salary. He averred, inter alia, that the climate in the Supreme Cassation Prosecutor's Office had deteriorated as a result of the actions of the Chief Prosecutor.",
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{
"ref": "2019 April 14, Alex McLevy, “Winter is Here on Game of Thrones’ Final Season Premiere (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2020-12-18",
"text": "[W]hen Yara tells him he picked the losing side, he avers that he might just as soon head back to the Iron Islands—\"But first, I'm gonna fuck the queen\" [...]",
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"To assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner."
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"affirm",
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[
"confidence",
"confidence"
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"declare",
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"(transitive, intransitive) To assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner."
],
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"word": "swear"
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"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "tvǎrdja",
"sense": "to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner",
"word": "твърдя"
},
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"roman": "zajavjavam",
"sense": "to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner",
"word": "заявявам"
},
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nastojavam",
"sense": "to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner",
"word": "настоявам"
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"sense": "to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner",
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"imperfective"
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"imperfective"
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"sense": "to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner",
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},
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"_dis1": "97 2 1",
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"sense": "to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner",
"word": "affirmer"
},
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"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner",
"word": "asserire"
},
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"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "utverždátʹ",
"sense": "to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "утвержда́ть"
},
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"roman": "zajavljátʹ",
"sense": "to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "заявля́ть"
},
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"_dis1": "97 2 1",
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"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner",
"word": "izjaviti"
},
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"_dis1": "97 2 1",
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"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner",
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"sense": "to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner",
"word": "asegurar"
},
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"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner",
"word": "iddia etmek"
},
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"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner",
"word": "ileri sürmek"
}
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"Society",
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"make#Verb"
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"(transitive, intransitive, law) To justify or prove (an allegation or plea that one has made)."
],
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{
"_dis1": "3 84 14",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "dokazvam",
"sense": "to prove or justify (an allegation or plea that one has made)",
"word": "доказвам"
},
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"_dis1": "3 84 14",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dokázyvatʹ",
"sense": "to prove or justify (an allegation or plea that one has made)",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "дока́зывать"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 84 14",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to prove or justify (an allegation or plea that one has made)",
"word": "potkrepiti"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 84 14",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to prove or justify (an allegation or plea that one has made)",
"word": "potkrijepiti"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 84 14",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to prove or justify (an allegation or plea that one has made)",
"word": "kanıtlamak"
}
]
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{
"ref": "1841 December, R[ichard] R[obert] Madden, “Address on Slavery in Cuba, Presented to the General Anti-slavery Convention”, in The Churchman’s Monthly Review, London: R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside; and sold by L. and G. Seeley, […], →OCLC, page 705",
"text": "[A]lthough thou averrest this, and averrest it truly, we are nevertheless constrained to plead guilty to the possession of so much of this sensibility [a refusal to hear details] (call it \"sickly\" if thou wilt) as that they case once proved, our feeling of duty refuses to sustain us any longer against that combined and overwhelming influence of shattered nerves and a sickened heart.",
"type": "quotation"
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"To avouch, prove, or verify the existence or happening of (something), or to offer to do so."
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"avouch",
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"verify",
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"existence",
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"happening",
"happening#Noun"
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"(transitive, obsolete) To avouch, prove, or verify the existence or happening of (something), or to offer to do so."
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"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
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"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
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"rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)"
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"5": "to grab, take"
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"name": "der"
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"A beast of burden; chiefly a workhorse, but also a working ox or other animal."
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"parents": [],
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"An old, useless horse; a nag."
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"(Northern England, Scotland, dialectal, archaic) An old, useless horse; a nag."
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"tags": [
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{
"homophone": "Ava"
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{
"ipa": "/ˈeɪvɚ/",
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"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Old French",
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"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with homophones",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)",
"Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)/2 syllables"
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"ref": "1660, Samuel Fisher, “[Rusticus ad Academicos in Exercitationibus Expostulatoriis, Apologeticis Quatuor. The Rustick’s Alarm to the Rabbies: Or, The Country Correcting the University and Clergy, and (Not without Good Cause) Contesting for the Truth, against the Nursing Mothers and Their Children. In Four Apologetical and Expostulatory Exercitations; …] The Third Apologetical, and Expostulatory Exercitation”, in The Testimony of Truth Exalted, […], [London?]: [s.n.], published 1679, →OCLC, chapter I, page 411",
"text": "Now as to the Scriptures being the Word of God, and evidently known to be ſo, or evidencing themſelves to be ſo, and that of right, and properly they are to be ſo called; all which thou J. O. very abſolutely averreſt, […]",
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"ref": "1701, Lawrence Smith, “[First Discourse on 2 Timothy 1:10]”, in The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Or, The Immortality of the Human Soul, and the Separate Condition thereof in the Other World, Asserted and Made Manifest: […], London: […] Thomas Speed, […], →OCLC, page 1",
"text": "[T]he partial Infidel […] averreth the Sleep or Inſenſibility of the Soul both in good and bad perſons, from the time of their Deceaſe hence until their Reſurrection; […]",
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"ref": "1939 August 25, “Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead”, in Yip Harburg (lyrics), Harold Arlen (music), The Wizard of Oz (soundtrack), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer",
"text": "As Coroner, I must aver, I thoroughly examined her. / And she's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead.",
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"ref": "1997, Frederick W. Case, Jr., Roberta B. Case, “The North American Trilliums”, in Trilliums, Portland, Or.: Timber Press, page 109",
"text": "Horticulturalist Richard Lighty has a form [of Trillium grandiflorum] that he avers to open almost a cerise-red.",
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"ref": "2007 July 26, European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), Peev v. Bulgaria (Application no. 64209/01), Strasbourg, paragraph 19",
"text": "In the meantime, on 5 June 2000, the applicant had brought a civil action against the Prosecutor's Office. He alleged that the termination of his contract had been unlawful and sought reinstatement and compensation for loss of salary. He averred, inter alia, that the climate in the Supreme Cassation Prosecutor's Office had deteriorated as a result of the actions of the Chief Prosecutor.",
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"ref": "2019 April 14, Alex McLevy, “Winter is Here on Game of Thrones’ Final Season Premiere (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2020-12-18",
"text": "[W]hen Yara tells him he picked the losing side, he avers that he might just as soon head back to the Iron Islands—\"But first, I'm gonna fuck the queen\" [...]",
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"ref": "1841 December, R[ichard] R[obert] Madden, “Address on Slavery in Cuba, Presented to the General Anti-slavery Convention”, in The Churchman’s Monthly Review, London: R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside; and sold by L. and G. Seeley, […], →OCLC, page 705",
"text": "[A]lthough thou averrest this, and averrest it truly, we are nevertheless constrained to plead guilty to the possession of so much of this sensibility [a refusal to hear details] (call it \"sickly\" if thou wilt) as that they case once proved, our feeling of duty refuses to sustain us any longer against that combined and overwhelming influence of shattered nerves and a sickened heart.",
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"sense": "to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner",
"word": "asserire"
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},
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"sense": "to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner",
"word": "ustvrditi"
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"sense": "to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner",
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