vouch

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No coquetry was there, I vouch-- Society endures not such!

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  1. intransitive verb To give personal assurances; give a guarantee: vouch for an old friend's trustworthiness.
  2. intransitive verb To constitute supporting evidence; give substantiation: a candidate whose strong record vouches for her ability.
  3. transitive verb To substantiate by supplying evidence; prove: charges that he could not vouch.

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  • Hampton Court Palace Gallery THE SHEPHERD BOY Finally, on Morelli's list figures the “Shepherd” at Hampton Court, for the genuineness of which the critic would not absolutely vouch, as he had only seen it in a bad light. —  Giorgione
  • No coquetry was there, I vouch-- Society endures not such! —  Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse
  • Both Miliukoff and his friend who had so narrowly escaped the "perfume" declared publicly that the camarilla favoured the acceptance of the offer Of the truth of this I can myself vouch, for Alexandra Feodorovna had, since her holy Father had received the secret dispatch, spared no effort to induce the Emperor and the Cabinet to accept the olive branch Nicholas refused. —  The Minister of Evil The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia
  • The question was mooted as to whether or not they would haunt the locality, and from this the conversation naturally turned to apparitions of all kinds As we reached Edinburgh on our return a middle-aged passenger who had been seated on a seat in front turned round and said, "What do you make of this story, for the truth of which I can vouch:--A young sailor, whose vessel at that moment was lying at Limerick Harbour, appeared to his father, who at that time was at home with the rest of his family in Dublin. —  Real Ghost Stories
  • "Whose character is drowned No one's," said Mrs. Butler. "Or at least, no one who belongs to us Here she waved one of her arms in theatrical style I have fought for that girl," she said, "as my sister Maria can bear testimony, and my friend Mrs. Morris can vouch---I have fought for her, and I may truly say I have brought her through a sea of slander--yes, through a sea of slander--victorious. —  The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town
 

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  1. Middle English vouchen, to summon to court, warrant, from Anglo-Norman voucher, probably from Vulgar Latin *voticāre, alteration of Latin vocitāre, frequentative of vocāre, to call; see wekw- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English vouchen, vowchen, from Old French voucher, vocher, from Latin vocare, call, call upon, summon: see vocation, voice. Cf. vouchsafe, avouch.
  2. from vouch, v.
 

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