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
Joseph, feeling his indebtedness to Potiphar, contents himself with the simple averment that he himself is innocent.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Marcus Dods
His averment to this effect does not allow the supposition that he could have deceived himself, on such a point.
From Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply by Charles Wentworth Upham
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
Tho conscience-stricken culprit, being taken by surprise, and almost imagining this a supernatural intimation from heaven, exclaimed, in trembling accents— "But who are you that makes this averment?"
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various
