averment
AmericanEtymology
Origin of averment
1400–50; late Middle English averrement < Middle French. See aver, -ment
Example Sentences
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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
Suffused with seeming humor and the pathos of half hidden tragedy this averment brings us face to face with a life reluctantly asserting its individuality.
From Lincoln, the Politician by Levy, T. Aaron
Joseph, feeling his indebtedness to Potiphar, contents himself with the simple averment that he himself is innocent.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Dods, Marcus
Phebe had no exculpatory evidence but her simple averment that she knew not how the articles came there—she never brought them.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various
Sabine says the truth of this averment may be doubted.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.
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