averring

VERB

maintain

Synonyms

STRONG

affirm assert avouch claim contend declare emphasize insist justify predicate proclaim prove state swear verify

Antonyms

STRONG

deny disclaim discredit disprove forget question

Example Sentences

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It is thine hour, Apollo—speak the law, Averring if this deed were justly done; For done it is, and clear and undenied.

From The House of Atreus by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)

Averring that the problem was national in scope, he asserted the constitutional authority of Congress to solve it.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 by Various