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

Tho conscience-stricken culprit, being taken by surprise, and almost imagining this a supernatural intimation from heaven, exclaimed, in trembling accents— "But who are you that makes this averment?"

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various

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 Lever, Charles James

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 Edge, Frederick Milnes

There is no averment in this plea which shows or conduces to show an inability in the plaintiff to sue in the Circuit Court.

From Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Opinions of the Judges Thereof, in the Case of Dred Scott versus John F.A. Sandford December Term, 1856. by Howard, Benjamin C.