averment

From Middle English averement, 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, chapter 16, in Billy Budd‎, London: Constable & Co.:

     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 […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “averment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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