AVERMENT

assertion, averment, asseveration

(noun) a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

averment (countable and uncountable, plural averments)

The act of averring, or that which is averred; positive assertion.

verification; establishment by evidence.

A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.

Synonyms

• (act of averring): affirmation, asseveration, assertion, declaration

Anagrams

• Vanmeter

Source: Wiktionary

A*ver"ment, n. Etym: [Cf. OF. averement, LL. averamentum. See Aver, v. t.]

1. The act of averring, or that which is averred; affirmation; positive assertion. Signally has this averment received illustration in the course of recent events. I. Taylor.

2. Verification; establishment by evidence. Bacon.

3. (Law)

Definition: A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.

Note: In any stage of pleadings, when either party advances new matter, he avers it to be true, by using this form of words: "and this he is ready to verify." This was formerly called an averment. It modern pleading, it is termed a verification. Blackstone.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition