Definition of "averment"

averment

noun
countable and uncountable, plural averments
1. The act of averring, or that which is averred; positive assertion.
  Quotations
  And for some of these averments, he added, substantiating proof was not far.
  1924, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Billy Budd‎, London: Constable & Co.
2. verification; establishment by evidence.
3. A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.