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averral en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English aver Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English avowalinflu. English averral From aver + -al, influenced by avowal.

Meanings

1. (nonstandard) The act of averring; an assertion of truth.
   • To be sure, the potentially transubstantiationist averral "God shall strengthen all the feeble knees" provides closure for "Easter Communion," a sonnet of Lent 1865. 1988, Jeffrey B. Loomis, Dayspring in Darkness, page 26:
   • This has been considered evidence against the concept that contacted tumor cells tend to continue unimpeded in their forward movement, despite the averral of Abercrombie (1979) that it is irrelevant whether the superimposition of cells occurs by overlapping or by underlapping as long as cell contact has occurred. 1989, Esmond J. Sanders, The Cell Surface in Embryogenesis and Carcinogenesis, page 143:
   • The firm assertion that good men ... do not destroy the city ... reads almost as a defensive response, 'well don't look at us', to the forceful and yet implicit blame embedded in the averral of Solon 4.1-2 that it is not the gods who will destroy the city ... . 2005, Elizabeth Irwin, Solon and Early Greek Poetry, page 227:

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Synonyms

avowal