Aver vs Vindicate - What's the difference?
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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.
To clear from an accusation, suspicion or criticism.
To justify by providing evidence.
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To maintain or defend a cause against opposition.
To provide justification for.
To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.
(obsolete) To liberate; to set free; to deliver.
(obsolete) To avenge; to punish
Aver is a related term of vindicate.
As a noun aver
is ice-floe.As a verb vindicate is
to clear from an accusation, suspicion or criticism.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.
Etymology 3
Related to .Anagrams
* ----vindicate
English
Verb
- to vindicate someone's honor
- to vindicate a right, claim or title
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- to vindicate the rights of labor movement in developing countries
- The violent history of the suspect vindicated the use of force by the police.
- A war to vindicate infidelity.