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
"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
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 Robert Green Ingersoll
And the oath prescribed for them on returning was explicitly an averment of truth.
From The Ordinance of Covenanting by John Cunningham
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 A Sexton of the Old School
