Aver vs Waver - What's the difference?
aver | waver |
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 sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
* Ld. Berners
* Sir Walter Scott
To flicker, glimmer, quiver, as a weak light.
To fluctuate or vary, as commodity prices or a poorly sustained musical pitch.
To shake or tremble, as the hands or voice.
To falter; become unsteady; begin to fail or give way.
* 1903 , Bill Arp, From the Uncivil War to Date
* 2014 , Jacob Steinberg, "
To be indecisive between choices; to feel or show doubt or indecision; to vacillate.
An act of wavering, vacillating, etc.
Someone who waves, enjoys waving, etc.
Someone who specializes in waving (hair treatment).
A tool that accomplishes hair waving.
(UK, dialect, dated) A sapling left standing in a fallen wood.
As nouns the difference between aver and waver
is that aver is ice-floe while waver is an act of wavering, vacillating, etc.As a verb waver is
to sway back and forth; to totter or reel.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
* ----waver
English
Verb
(en verb)- Flowers wavered in the breeze.
- With banners and pennons wavering with the wind.
- Thou wouldst waver on one of these trees as a terror to all evil speakers against dignities.
- His voice wavered when the reporter brought up the controversial topic.
- ...and that when a man was in the wrong his courage wavered , and his nerves became unsteady, and so he couldn't fight to advantage and was easily overcome.
Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian , 9 March 2014:
- Although they believe they can overhaul their 2-0 deficit, they cannot afford to be as lethargic as this at Camp Nou, and the time is surely approaching when Manuel Pellegrini's faith in MartÃn Demichelis wavers .
Noun
(en noun)- I felt encouraged by all the enthusiastic wavers in the crowd.
- The Fourth of July brings out all the flag wavers .
- Johnny is such a little waver ; everyone who passes by receives his preferred greeting.
- (Halliwell)
