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
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 Robert Green Ingersoll
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
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
If Moray the righteous could act thus, much more might the murderer Morton perjure himself in his averment that there had been no tampering with the Casket Letters in his custody.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
