averment
nounEtymology From Middle English averement, from Old French averrement, averement, from averer (Modern French avérer).
1
The act of averring, or that which is averred; positive assertion.
- And for some of these averments, he added, substantiating proof was not far.1924, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
2
verification; establishment by evidence.
3
A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.
- Synonyms
- affirmation, asseveration, assertion, declaration