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averment

[uh-vur-muhnt] / əˈvɜr mənt /


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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 the oath prescribed for them on returning was explicitly an averment of truth.

From The Ordinance of Covenanting by Cunningham, John

A man's asking a passport for Baden would be a tacit averment, 'I am going to gamble.'

From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Lever, Charles James

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 School, A Sexton of the Old

The untrue averment that the committee of council have refused to contribute to the support of schools not adopting the management clauses is in proper keeping with these equivocations.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various




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