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
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There was no occasion to state this, and the averment might be treated as surplusage.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Ingersoll, Robert Green
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.
"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
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 Upham, Charles Wentworth