averment
Example Sentences
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Unless and until Utah impeaches his credibility, that averment is accepted by us descendants of the man.
From Time Magazine Archive
And, singular as it may appear, this the Judge-Advocate does not categorically affirm; he leaves it to be inferred from his averment of the presence of the paper and a conversation on the subject.
From The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt by David Miller DeWitt
I must presume, as a sexton of the old school, to doubt the accuracy of this statement, in the very face of the averment, that the editor’s authority is “a friend, learned in such lore.”
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
The resolutions in question were published in the city papers and can be referred to in substantiation of this averment.
From The Pullman Boycott A Complete History of the R.R. Strike by W. F. Burns
This is equivalent to an averment that he is a citizen of that State.
From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes
