averment

From Old French averrement, averement, from averer (Modern French avérer).

averment (countable and uncountable, plural averments)

1. The act of averring, or that which is averred; positive assertion.
   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 16,

     And for some of these averments, he added, substantiating proof was not far.

2. verification; establishment by evidence.
3. A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.

• (act of averring): affirmation, asseveration, assertion, declaration

• averment in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• averment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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