![]() For example ‘criminals avow their crimes in court regularly.’ Legally, it denotes the action of publicly, openly declaring something as a matter of fact. It is used in both formal and legal discourse and has a slight overlap in the meaning in the respective contexts. ‘Avow’ basically means to assuredly express something frankly and publicly, usually under an assumed or literal pledge. It is often used transitively, literally meaning to ‘to take a vow’. In the sentence above, the word ‘aver’ is used to affirm that the psychiatric patient was taking his medicines compliantly.Īvow is pronounced as ‘ay-vau’ and used as a verb. The patient sitting before his psychiatrist appeared more stable than before so the physiatrist averred that he had been taking his medications on time.Here, the subject of the sentence is ‘averring’ or declaring it to be true that he did not eat the ice cream. The child, with chocolate cream all over his mouth and nose, averred that he did not go near the ice cream.The professor chuckled and assertively remarked that communism will not, in any way, succeed. In the indirect speech above, the verb ‘aver’ is used in the present tense. ![]()
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