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Aver vs Repudiate - What's the difference?

aver | repudiate |

As verbs the difference between aver and repudiate

is that aver is to assert the truth of, to affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner while repudiate is to reject the truth or validity of something; to deny.

As a noun aver

is (obsolete) possessions, property, belongings, wealth or aver can be (dialectal) a work-horse, working ox, or other beast of burden.

aver

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) aveir ((etyl) avoir), substantive use of the verb, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) Possessions, property, belongings, wealth.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

  • to assert the truth of, to affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner.
  • * 1663 ,
    • 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.
  • * 1819 CE: Percy Shelley, Peter Bell the Third :
    • The Devil, I safely can aver , / Has neither hoof, nor tail, nor sting.
  • * 1939 (MGM/Warner Home Video)
    • As Coroner, I must aver , I thoroughly examined her.
  • * 1997 Frederic W. and Roberta B. Case, Trilliums , ISBN 0-88192-374-5:
    • Small (1933) avers T. simile to be deliciously fragrant, a quality we have not noticed in our plants.
  • (legal) To prove or justify a plea.
  • (obsolete) To avouch, prove, or verify; to offer to verify.
    • Related terms
    * averment

    Etymology 3

    Related to .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialectal) A work-horse, working ox, or other beast of burden.

    • Anagrams

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    repudiate

    English

    Verb

  • To reject the truth or validity of something; to deny.
  • To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown.
  • To refuse to pay or honor (a debt).
  • To be repudiated.

    • Quotations

    : "Chaucer . . . not only came to doubt the worth of his extraordinary body of work, but repudiated it" : "If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America." 1848': '... she dictated to Briggs a furious answer in her own native tongue, '''repudiating Mrs. Rawdon Crawley altogether...' — William Makepeace Thackeray, '' , Chapter XXXIV. "The seventeenth century sometimes seems for more than a moment to gather up and to digest into its art all the experience of the human mind which (from the same point of view) the later centuries seem to have been partly engaged in repudiating ." , Andrew Marvell . "The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution." --

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