averment
Example Sentences
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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
Joseph, feeling his indebtedness to Potiphar, contents himself with the simple averment that he himself is innocent.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Marcus Dods
The legal question had arisen whether the words, 'She, knowing that Crooke had been indicted for forgery,' did so and so, contained an averment that Crooke had been indicted.
From The English Utilitarians, Volume I. by Sir Leslie Stephen
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
The resolutions in question were published in the city papers and can be referred to in substantiation of this averment.
From The Pullman Boycott A Complete History of the R.R. Strike by W. F. Burns
