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

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