averment

[ uh-vur-muhnt ]

noun

1. the act of averring.
2. a positive statement.

Word History and Origins

Origin of averment¹

1400–50; late Middle English averrement < Middle French. See aver, -ment

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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