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Definition of Avouching
1. avouch [v] - See also: avouch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Avouching
Literary usage of Avouching
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sermons and Other Practical Works: Consisting of Above One Hundred and Fifty by Ralph Erskine (1796)
"I. Touch a little at the engagement of a covenanted people here, their avouching
Gpd. II. At the engagement of a covenanted Gcd, his avouching them. III. ..."
2. The Campaign of 1781 in the Carolinas: With Remarks, Historical and Critical by Henry Lee (1824)
"437,) after quoting and avouching a letter of Greene, which gives a still more
unfavourable description of these irregulars, declares, " The soldiers of ..."
3. A commentary on the Psalms of David [tr. based on that of A. Golding]. by Jean [comms. on the Bible] Calvin (1840)
"David amplifies it by an antithetical member, avouching that all the ungodly
shall come to an unhappy end by the just vengeance of God. ..."
4. Sermons by Ralph Erskine, Stephen Higginson Tyng (1863)
"Again, He hath, by avouching of us, confessed and acknowledged, that it is his will
... Again, By avouching us to be his, as he hath promised to us in his ..."
5. The History of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, from the Settlement by Elizabeth Hubbell Godfrey Schenck (1904)
"... avouching Almighty God for our God & portion, avouching the son Jesus Christ
for our only Prophet & Teacher, & for our only Priest & Propitiation, ..."
6. The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg, Boaz Cohen (1920)
"As thy heart is one and united in avouching the Holy One, blessed be He, to be
thy God, so also are our hearts one and united in avouching Him. ..."
7. The History of Lynn: Including Nahant by Alonzo Lewis (1844)
"We do give up ourselves to God, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, as to the only
true and living God; avouching God the Father to be our father; ..."
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