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

It occurred to me to ask for an explanation—an additional averment as confirmation of its truth; but, before I could recover myself, it was too late—the boat was almost beyond hail.

From Ran Away to Sea by Reid, Mayne

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

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 DeWitt, David Miller

"Had they?" said Reuben, thoughtfully, pondering if there did not lie somewhere in this averment the basis for some new moral adjustment of his own conduct.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 by Various