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
The untrue averment that the committee of council have refused to contribute to the support of schools not adopting the management clauses is in proper keeping with these equivocations.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
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
He cannot pass such a Bill himself, because the mere act of passing it contradicts the averment of the Bill, and shows its provisions to be improper.
From Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 2 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of
That which is asserted; an assertion; a positive ?tatement; an averment; as, an affirmation, by the vender, of title to property sold, or of its quality.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
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