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

I looked incredulous, and almost hinted at insanity; but the young nobleman still persevered in his averment.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various

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 Upham, Charles Wentworth

And the oath prescribed for them on returning was explicitly an averment of truth.

From The Ordinance of Covenanting by Cunningham, John

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 Dods, Marcus