0 to say that something is certainly true:
[ + speech ] "He's guilty, I tell you," she averred.
[ + that ] She averred that he was guilty.
If the crimes of totalitarianism were as original and immense as she averred, then could they be anything other than demonic?
Critics have averred that war crimes trials are meagre tools for advancing the claims of traumatic history, being essentially reductive and individualistic.
In fact, many points raised by the ' critical ' approach have quite pragmatic implications, if the political compromise averred in this paper is to work.
Most people would aver that the 'mapping component' is of no interest to them, but actually if you experience this piece as something powerful and expressive, that's what you're hearing.
It all makes for an unusual but impressive response and the whole piece works very well - although purists might aver it does so for all the wrong reasons.
Skinner averred that experimental analysis would ultimately reveal causal links between covert behavior and the overt environment.
Sometimes, it is averred that the investigation of causal mechanisms involves a different set of methodological tools than would be common, or useful, to an investigation of covariational relationships.
Friedrich, for example, averred as a 'fact' that physicists (and by implication other scientists) 'use calculus (or some other mathematics) as their basic language, the language of conceptualisation' (1986:159).
