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

I must presume, as a sexton of the old school, to doubt the accuracy of this statement, in the very face of the averment, that the editor’s authority is “a friend, learned in such lore.”

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

This is equivalent to an averment that he is a citizen of that State.

From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by Barnes, William Horatio

Phebe had no exculpatory evidence but her simple averment that she knew not how the articles came there—she never brought them.

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

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 Burns, W. F.