Definitions for averments

averments a·ver·ment

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

Averments is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 569 anagrams from letters in averments (aeemnrstv).

Definitions for averments

noun

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

Origin of averments

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

Examples for averments

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for averments
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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