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Averment

noun
1.
A declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary).  Synonyms: assertion, asseveration.





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"Averment" Quotes from Famous Books



... statuary for the adornment of this extravaganza. Its enormous level posed in great part upon a substructure of arches on arches, which still exist. The opinion is quite general that it was destroyed by the Turks, and that much of its material went to construct the Mosque Sulymanie. The latter averment is doubtless correct; but it is only justice to say that the Crusaders, so called Christians, who encamped in Constantinople in 1204 were the real vandals. For pastime, merely, they plied their battle-axes on the ...
— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 2 • Lew. Wallace
... say to you, that no man can come to me, unless it be given him by the Father." John VI, 29: "This is the work of God,(314) that you believe in him whom he hath sent." According to our Saviour's own averment, therefore, preaching is of no avail unless grace gives the ...
— Grace, Actual and Habitual • Joseph Pohle


Words linked to "Averment" :   assertion, testimony, asseveration, ipsedixitism, denial, claim, ipse dixit, avowal, contention, disaffirmation, charge, affirmation, aver, avouchment, accusation, declaration


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