averring
Example Sentences
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What did that even mean?—something akin to the counsel averring that “there is no sky.”
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2017
I’ve heard from more than one reader over the years averring that an orchestra’s role is simply to play the music of Beethoven, Brahms and their ilk: Forget contemporary stuff, much less diversity.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 13, 2016
In Washington elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, adviser on reconversion, prepared to break his peace, averring only in advance that the Government agencies which had wound the machine up should preside at its unwinding.
From Time Magazine Archive
The prosecutors kept the Bible out of discussion by averring that the Bible did not constitute the rule of faith except as interpreted by the Church.
From Time Magazine Archive
To merge into a family, to have a home when he except in extraneous matters of documents averring him as proprietor, was homeless, was that which he sought and wanted to hear.
From An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills
