averment

How to use averment in a sentence

• And the oath prescribed for them on returning was explicitly an averment of truth.

  The Ordinance of Covenanting | John Cunningham

• Neither in itself nor in its preamble was there an averment, or even an assumption of its necessity, as a rule of guidance.

  The Felon's Track | Michael Doheny

• The Ministerial averment answered no purpose, save to excite a general burst of disapprobation.

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 68, No. 417, July, 1850 | Various

• The resolutions in question were published in the city papers and can be referred to in substantiation of this averment.

  The Pullman Boycott | W. F. Burns

• A man's asking a passport for Baden would be a tacit averment, 'I am going to gamble.'

  Arthur O'Leary | Charles James Lever