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
And, singular as it may appear, this the Judge-Advocate does not categorically affirm; he leaves it to be inferred from his averment of the presence of the paper and a conversation on the subject.
From The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt by DeWitt, David Miller
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.
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
The only positive averment in the affidavit was unimportant, and, if important, was untrue.
