Averment

Definition: Averment

Averment

Noun

1. A declaration that is made as if no supporting evidence were necessary.

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Date "averment" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references)

Etymology: Averment \A*ver"ment\, noun. [Compare to Old French averement, Late Latin expression averamentum. See Aver, transitive verb]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Averment

Affirmation

Noun: affirmance, affirmation; statement, allegation, assertion, predication, declaration, word, averment; confirmation.

Asseveration, adjuration, swearing, oath, affidavit; deposition; (record); avouchment; assurance; protest, protestation; profession; acknowledgment; (assent); legal pledge, pronouncement; solemn averment, solemn avowal, solemn declaration.

Expression using "averment": solemn averment. Additional references.

Albanian

provë (assay, audition, demonstration, evidence, experiment, fact, fitting, flier, prill, probation, prolusion, proof, reasoning, rehearsal, run through, rush, school, seal, sign, substantiation, taste, tasting, test, touch, trial, try, try on, try out, witness), pohim (admission, affirmation, assertion, avowal, claim, confession, confirmation, contention, corroboration, maintenance, predicate, predication, proposition, reassurance, showing, testimony). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قسم بين (portion), ‏إثبات (affirmation, confirmation, demonstration, proof, proofing, substantiation, vindication). (various references)

Bulgarian 

твърдение (affirmation, allegation, assertion, claim, contention, contestation, position, predication, proposition, statement), настояване (instance, solicitation), доказателство (demonstration, object lesson, piece of evidence, proof, seal, showing, telltale, testimony, verification, vindication, witness). (various references)

Danish

påstand (assertion, claim, contention). (various references)

Dutch

bewering (assertion, claim, contention). (various references)

French

allégation, affirmation. (various references)

German

Behauptung (allegation, assertion, claim, declaration, position, pronouncement, proposition, statement, thesis). (various references)

Greek 

ισχυρισμός (allegation, claim), δήλωση (bid, declaration, denotation, predication, pronouncement, propitiatory, proposition, statement). (various references)

Hungarian

állítás (affirmation, allegation, assertion, claim, contention, naked facts, phasing, predicate, predication, reassertation, recovery, representation, say so, say-so, statement). (various references)

Italian

affermazione (affirmation, allegation, assertion, claim, Dick, proposition, statement). (various references)

Pig Latin

avermentay

Portuguese

alegação (adduction, plea). (various references)

Romanian

afirmare (affirmation, assertion, avouchment), subliniere (accent, accentuation, emphasis, stress, underlining), confirmare (acknowledgement, acknowledgment, affirmation, chrism, confirmation, sanction, satisfaction). (various references)

Russian 

доказательство (demonstration, evidence, internal evidence, proof, prover, substantiation, vindication, witness). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tvrdnja (assertion, aver, claim, contention, say so), izjava (aver, declaration, pronouncement, statement, testimony, utterance). (various references)

Spanish

afirmación (affirmation, assertion, assertiveness, asseveration, care, predication, say so), acusación (accusal, accusation, arraignment, charge, complaint, delation, impeachment, indictment, prosecution, rap). (various references)

Turkish

kanıt (argument, case, confirmation, convincing proof, demonstration, evidence, proof, supporting document), iddia (allegation, argument, assertion, asseveration, bet, charge, claim, contention, contest, information, pleading, pretence, pretense, pretension, protestation, say so, submission), delil (argument, case, document, earnest, evidence, proof, supporting document, voucher). (various references)

Ukrainian

твердження (affirmation, affirmative, assertion, claim, contention, predicate, predication, proposition, representation), підтвердження факту, подання доказу, доказ (argument, attest, authority, clue, confirmation, document, eviction, evidence, probate, proof, substantiation, testimony, witness). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự xác nhận (affirmation, confirmation, homologation, predication), sự khẳng định (affirmation, assertion, avouchment, positiveness, positivity). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "averment": averments. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Averment" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: avermectin, avernment, avertment, salvament. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: nervate, varment, veteran.

-2 letters: entera, marten, meaner, neater, remate, rename, reteam, tavern, venter.

-3 letters: ameer, ament, antre, arete, armet, avert, eaten, eater, enate, enema, enter, event, evert, mater, maven, meant, menta, meter, metre, namer, nerve, never, ramee, ramen, ramet, ranee, raven, reave, reman, remet, rente, retem, revet, tamer, terne, trave, treen, veena, venae.

+1 letter: averments, ravelment.

+2 letters: harvestmen, overmantel, ravagement, ravelments, revealment.

+3 letters: argumentive, bereavement, depravement, enumerative, germinative, menservants, outmaneuver, overgarment, overmantels, overpayment, ravagements, revealments, terminative.

+4 letters: aggrievement, animadverted, bereavements, depravements, fermentative, galvanometer, governmental, misadventure, outmaneuvers, overgarments, overornament, overpayments, remunerative, ventromedial.

+5 letters: adventuresome, advertisement, advertizement, aggrievements, argumentative, demonstrative, determinative, environmental, galvanometers, misadventures, normativeness, outmaneuvered, overemotional, overmastering, overornaments, overstatement, overtreatment, recriminative, remonstrative, terminatively, vegetarianism.