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Avouch
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What's The Definition Of Avouch?
[v] admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about
Synonyms | Synonyms for Avouch: avow Related Terms | Find terms related to Avouch: acknowledge | admit | affirm | allege | announce | annunciate | argue | assert | assever | asseverate | assure | attest | aver | avow | bear witness | certify | confess | confirm | contend | corroborate | countersign | declare | depone | depose | disclose | enunciate | express | express the belief | give evidence | guarantee | have | hold | insist | issue a manifesto | lay down | maintain | make a promise | manifesto | own | pledge | plight | predicate | proclaim | profess | promise | pronounce | protest | put | put it | say | set down | speak | speak out | speak up | stand for | stand on | state | submit | swear | testify | troth | underwrite | vouch | vow | warrant | witness See Also | acknowledge | admit Avouch In Webster's Dictionary \A*vouch"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Avouched} (?); p. pr. &
vb. n. {Avouching}.] [OF. avochier, LL. advocare to recognize
the existence of a thing, to advocate, fr. L. advocare to
call to; ad + vocare to call. Cf. {Avow} to declare,
{Advocate}, and see {Vouch}, v. t.]
1. To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority. [Obs.]
They avouch many successions of authorities. --Coke.
2. To maintain a just or true; to vouch for.
We might be disposed to question its authenticity,
it if were not avouched by the full evidence.
--Milman.
3. To declare or assert positively and as matter of fact; to
affirm openly.
If this which he avouches does appear. --Shak.
Such antiquities could have been avouched for the
Irish. --Spenser.
4. To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to
sanction.
Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God.
--Deut. xxvi.
17.
\A*vouch"\, n. Evidence; declaration. [Obs.] The sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes. --Shak. |
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