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
For every averment they had "the sensible and true avouch of their own eyes" and ears.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green
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
That which is alleged, asserted, or declared; positive assertion; formal averment I thought their allegation but reasonable.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
Sabine says the truth of this averment may be doubted.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.
