avouch
Americanverb (used with object)
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to make frank acknowledgment or affirmation of; declare or assert with positiveness.
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to assume responsibility for; vouch for; guarantee.
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to admit; confess.
verb
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to vouch for; guarantee
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to acknowledge
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to assert
Other Word Forms
- avoucher noun
- avouchment noun
- unavouched adjective
Etymology
Origin of avouch
1350–1400; Middle English avouchen < Middle French avouchier < Latin advocāre. See a- 5, vouch, advocate
Example Sentences
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Mr. Carroll was also informed that in the colonies whose liberality he was now avouching, the Catholic religion had not been tolerated hitherto.
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Not a statement within its pages was committed to paper until it was thoroughly and reliably avouched for.
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And now, amiable and considerate reader, you have "ab imo pectore" my honest avouch for what I propose to lay before you, and a plain confession of my weaknesses.
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Such antiquities could have been avouched for the Irish.
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Ah, knave!" he exclaimed, "my prophetic soul avouched that your gravity cloaked an evil bent.
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