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

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

Suffused with seeming humor and the pathos of half hidden tragedy this averment brings us face to face with a life reluctantly asserting its individuality.

From Lincoln, the Politician by Levy, T. Aaron

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

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.