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Definition of Avouch
1. Verb. Admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about.
Definition of Avouch
1. v. t. To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority.
2. n. Evidence; declaration.
Definition of Avouch
1. Verb. To freely and openly admit. ¹
2. Verb. To confess. ¹
3. Verb. To confirm or verify, to affirm the validity of. ¹
4. Noun. (obsolete) evidence; declaration ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Avouch
1. to affirm [v -ED, -ING, -ES] - See also: affirm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Avouch
Literary usage of Avouch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"I know that with mankind, avouch these things? Abbot. My pious brethren—the scared
peasantry— Even thy own vassals—who do look on thee With most unquiet ..."
2. Commentaries on the Law in Shakespeare: With Explanations of the Legal Terms by Edward Joseph White (1911)
"avouch. 317. Disputing •with Lunatic. 318. Clothing villany with "holy writ."
319. Warrant no protection against murder. 320. Guilty conscience. 321. ..."
3. Biographical Sketch of Linton Stephens, (late Associate Justice of the by James D. Waddell (1877)
"... I insert here a few additional letters, without regard to chronological order,
which avouch the ..."
4. Curran and his contemporaries by Charles Phillips (1850)
"men ;" and I can avouch that in his latter days no man more indignantly denounced
the agitation of which he was an unwilling witness. " It goes to my heart, ..."
5. The Life of William Shakespeare: Including Many Particulars Respecting the by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1848)
"... the only one we can safely avouch to have ever been in his own hands, and it
is the only letter addressed to Shakespeare known to exist. ..."
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