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
This is equivalent to an averment that he is a citizen of that State.
From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by Barnes, William Horatio
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
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
The only positive averment in the affidavit was unimportant, and, if important, was untrue.
