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
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
If Moray the righteous could act thus, much more might the murderer Morton perjure himself in his averment that there had been no tampering with the Casket Letters in his custody.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
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 Dods, Marcus
Phebe had no exculpatory evidence but her simple averment that she knew not how the articles came there—she never brought them.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various
