Definition of "averring" []

• Present participle of aver. (verb)

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• "What if they did unite afterward, in averring that the break had been planned by"
• "So, it is to be hoped — as, indeed all accounts unite in averring — that the State capital will ere long lift its head above the floods and be re-established in more than it former greatness."
• "Mr. Obama has also seriously mischaracterized our enemy as "a far-reaching network of violence and hatred," averring "We cannot paint with a broad brush a faith as a consequence of the violence done in that faith's name.""