Definitions for averment

averment a·ver·ment

Spelling: [uh-vur-muh nt]
IPA: /əˈvɜr mənt/

Averment is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 271 anagrams from letters in averment (aeemnrtv).

Definitions for averment

noun

  1. the act of averring.
  2. a positive statement.
  3. the act of averring.
  4. a positive statement.

Origin of averment

1400-50; late Middle English averrement Middle French. See aver, -ment

Examples for averment

The latter case shows the averment of negligence to have been mere form.

It is an averment of a conclusion of law which is permitted to abridge the facts (positive and negative) on which it is founded.

By the way, I was wrong in recommending you to persist in your averment that Protection is dead and coffined.

There is no averment in this plea which shows or conduces to show an inability in the plaintiff to sue in the Circuit Court.

No sooner had Mrs. Falconer cast her eyes upon him than she could not but be convinced of the truth of Robert's averment.

And the oath prescribed for them on returning was explicitly an averment of truth.

To aver that his ancestors were sold as slaves, is not equivalent, in point of law, to an averment that he was a slave.

I must take exception, for instance, to his averment “that what we respect and admire,” viz.

His averment to this effect does not allow the supposition that he could have deceived himself, on such a point.

Neither in itself nor in its preamble was there an averment, or even an assumption of its necessity, as a rule of guidance.

The latter case shows the averment of negligence to have been mere form.

It is an averment of a conclusion of law which is permitted to abridge the facts (positive and negative) on which it is founded.

By the way, I was wrong in recommending you to persist in your averment that Protection is dead and coffined.

There is no averment in this plea which shows or conduces to show an inability in the plaintiff to sue in the Circuit Court.

No sooner had Mrs. Falconer cast her eyes upon him than she could not but be convinced of the truth of Robert's averment.

And the oath prescribed for them on returning was explicitly an averment of truth.

To aver that his ancestors were sold as slaves, is not equivalent, in point of law, to an averment that he was a slave.

I must take exception, for instance, to his averment “that what we respect and admire,” viz.

His averment to this effect does not allow the supposition that he could have deceived himself, on such a point.

Neither in itself nor in its preamble was there an averment, or even an assumption of its necessity, as a rule of guidance.

Word Value for averment
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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