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Pronunciation: [ˈavəmənts] (IPA)

Averments are claims or statements made with confidence and conviction. Synonyms for averments include assertions, declarations, affirmations, allegations, pronouncements, and proclamations. They all communicate a strong belief in something that the speaker or writer feels strongly about. An assertion is a confident statement made without proof or evidence. A declaration is a formal or public announcement of a belief or opinion. An affirmation is a statement made to confirm or emphasize something already said or believed. Allegations are accusations or claims made without proof. Pronouncements are authoritative declarations on a particular topic. Proclamations are official public announcements made by a person in power or authority.
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For instance, if your court should issue a writ of habeas corpus for the relief of a federal officer upon the averments in his petition that he was forcibly and illegally restrained of his liberty for the purpose of preventing him from performing his official duties, and it should appear in the return to the writ that the person detaining the prisoner was a ministerial officer of the State government authorized by its laws to execute its process, and that he held the petitioner in custody by virtue of a warrant of arrest in due form, issued by a competent magistrate, to answer for an offense against the State laws, I presume the court, in the absence of any further showing, would instantly remand the petitioner to the custody of the State authorities without regard to his official position or the nature of his public duties.
"Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State"
Stephen Field; George C. Gorham
To place these truths in the clearest light of demonstration, and beyond the reach of contradiction, the subscribers proceed, in the order of these averments, to adduce the facts and the arguments by which they will be maintained."
"Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams."
Josiah Quincy
If it were possible for you to suspend your judgment; if the most open, and earnest, and positive averments of my innocence could induce you, not to reverse, but merely to postpone, your sentence, you would afford me unspeakable happiness.
"Jane Talbot"
Charles Brockden Brown

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