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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

For every averment they had "the sensible and true avouch of their own eyes" and ears.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green

"Had they?" said Reuben, thoughtfully, pondering if there did not lie somewhere in this averment the basis for some new moral adjustment of his own conduct.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 by Various

This is equivalent to an averment that he is a citizen of that State.

From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by Barnes, William Horatio

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