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
Not even Mr. Smith, the claimant himself, makes a direct averment that he was ordained by his father to succeed him as prophet and President of the church.
From Succession in the Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by B. H. Roberts
What truth there was in such averment may be gathered from the admirable letter in your impression of last Saturday from the young American to Lord Lyttelton.
From The Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion by Frederick Milnes Edge
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
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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