averment
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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
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
I looked incredulous, and almost hinted at insanity; but the young nobleman still persevered in his averment.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various
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
This return was, afterwards, amended, by an averment that, at the time of the service of the writ, Bollman was not in the possession or power of the person to whom it was addressed.
From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Robert Walsh
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