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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Before my God, I might not this believe, without the sensible and true avouch of mine own eyes.
From Textbooks • Mar. 27, 2020
What need I say in this place, but to profess, and likewise avouch, that we intend only to worship the Lord our God, when we kneel in the act of receiving?
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George
The parochial resolutioners, amounting in all to ten, were, I can honestly avouch, scarce at all missed in a congregation of nearly as many hundreds.
From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Miller, Hugh
What sober man will dare once to avouch An infinite number of dispersed starres?
From Democritus Platonissans by More, Henry
We avouch the Lord this day to be our God, and ourselves to be his people, in the truth and sincerity of our hearts.
From Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Coleman, Thomas
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