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
His averment to this effect does not allow the supposition that he could have deceived himself, on such a point.
From Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply by Charles Wentworth Upham
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 Mayne Reid
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 Charles James Lever
Sabine says the truth of this averment may be doubted.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by James H. Stark
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