Adduce vs Aver - What's the difference?
adduce | aver | Related terms |
To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
:* Reasons ... were adduced on both sides. - .
:* Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration. - .
:* Whoever in discussion adduces authority, uses not reason but memory. -
:* For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, -
to assert the truth of, to affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner.
* 1663 ,
* 1819 CE: Percy Shelley, Peter Bell the Third :
* 1939 (MGM/Warner Home Video)
* 1997 Frederic W. and Roberta B. Case, Trilliums , ISBN 0-88192-374-5:
(legal) To prove or justify a plea.
(obsolete) To avouch, prove, or verify; to offer to verify.
Adduce is a related term of aver.
As a verb adduce
is to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.As a noun aver is
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English
Verb
Synonyms
* present * allege * advance * cite * quote * assign * urge * name * mentionReferences
* ----aver
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) aveir ((etyl) avoir), substantive use of the verb, from (etyl) .Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
- Chiron, the four-legg'd bard, had both \ A beard and tail of his own growth; \ And yet by authors 'tis averr'd , \ He made use only of his beard.
- The Devil, I safely can aver , / Has neither hoof, nor tail, nor sting.
- As Coroner, I must aver , I thoroughly examined her.
- Small (1933) avers T. simile to be deliciously fragrant, a quality we have not noticed in our plants.