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
The Limitationist, more modest in averment, not having sufficient information to be positive, simply says he does not know.
From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) by George Jacob Holyoake
If Moray the righteous could act thus, much more might the murderer Morton perjure himself in his averment that there had been no tampering with the Casket Letters in his custody.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" 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 Charles Wentworth Upham
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 B. H. Roberts
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