avouch

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I do affirm and avouch, and maintain, with my soul, and my pody, and my plood, look you, that I have no smells apout me, but such as a Christian ought to have, except the effluvia of tobacco, which is a cephalic, odoriferous, aromatic herb; and he is a son of a mountain goat who says otherwise.

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  1. transitive verb To declare the provable truth or validity of; affirm: She avouched that she herself was innocent.
  2. transitive verb To corroborate or confirm; vouch for: Has this report been avouched?
  3. transitive verb To accept responsibility for (an action, for example); acknowledge.
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  • "That I can avouch, for I overheard her declare as much to Sir Jocelyn If such be the case, I am content," cried the old usurer. —  The Star-Chamber, Volume 2 An Historical Romance
  • In the present instance how do we know that avouch was sounded as it is now? —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
  • I dare avouch, what lately I have saide, The love that troubles you is for no maide Asca_. —  A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1
  • Can he avouch, or answer what he claimed XCII And would be all or nothing--nor could wait For the sure grave to level him; few years Had fixed him with the Caesars in his fate On whom we tread: For THIS the conqueror rears The arch of triumph! —  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
  • And the King said to them, "Since the babe shall become valiant as ye avouch, the toil and travail which will befall him are nought, for that tribulations teach the sons of kings Accordingly, after a few days, the queen gave birth to a male child, extolled be the perfection of Him who created him surpassing in grace and goodliness! —  Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English avouchen, to cite as a warrant, from Old French avochier, from Latin advocāre, to summon; see advocate.

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  1. from Middle English avouchen (rare), from Anglo-French advoucher, Old French avochier, avocher, a partly restored form, after the L., of avoer, avouer, affirm, declare, avow, orig. call upon to defend, from Latin advocare: see advocate, avow, and vouch.
  2. from avouch, v.
 

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