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

That which is alleged, asserted, or declared; positive assertion; formal averment I thought their allegation but reasonable.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Not even Mr. Smith, the claimant himself, makes a direct averment that he was ordained by his father to succeed him as prophet and President of the church.

From Succession in the Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Roberts, B. H.

Mr. Larocque: Will you look at the last averment in your indictment?

From Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by Warburton, A. F.

This return was, afterwards, amended, by an averment that, at the time of the service of the writ, Bollman was not in the possession or power of the person to whom it was addressed.

From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Walsh, Robert