Definition of "aver" []

• To affirm positively; declare. (verb-transitive)
• Law To assert formally as a fact. (verb-transitive)
• Law To justify or prove. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The north of France, and not Germany as Germans aver, is the peculiar home of this noble form of art, which all the surrounding nations learn."
• "But after fair translation of its old French body -- "aver" -- into English, and only "horse" is found, and the word becomes "horsage," the change tends to confusion."
• "Mark_W @ 218: Anyone who can use "aver" correctly is probably going to fit right in here."