averment

American  

[uh-vur-muhnt] / əˈvɜr mənt /

noun

1. the act of averring.

2. a positive statement.

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Etymology

Origin of averment

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

Example Sentences

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averment

Unless and until Utah impeaches his credibility, that averment is accepted by us descendants of the man.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The only positive averment in the affidavit was unimportant, and, if important, was untrue.

From The Trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. Charged with Publishing and Circulating Seditious and Incendiary Papers, &c. in the District of Columbia, with the Intent of Exciting Servile Insurrection. Carefully Reported, and Compiled from the Written Statements of the Court and the Counsel. by Unknown

Lord Cromarty’s averment that it was found in Sprot’s kist was disbelieved. 

From James VI and the Gowrie Mystery by Lang, Andrew

To aver that his ancestors were sold as slaves, is not equivalent, in point of law, to an averment that he was a slave.

From Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Opinions of the Judges Thereof, in the Case of Dred Scott versus John F.A. Sandford December Term, 1856. by Howard, Benjamin C.