avouches

She came before him with bowed head and eyes tearful and heart sorrowful; and he said to her, O Kut al-Kulub, I find thou accuses me of tyranny and oppression, and thou avouches that I have done ill by one who did well by me.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

But what she spoke was meant for reason, and, therefore, unless she confesses and avouches all which she has said to be nonsense, it shall pass for such, so far as to incur our statutes.

The Abbot 2008

Come, speak truly to me; what shameful rumour avouches

Poems and Fragments 2006

Come, speak truly to me; what shameful rumour avouches

Poems and Fragments 2006

Come, speak truly to me; what shameful rumour avouches

The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus

It is an insufficient guarantee for that which it avouches.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various

Here the fugitives place themselves one against the other in the hugeness of their numbers so that very quickly in many places the countryside hardly exists except in leapfrogged forlorn patches or farther out, where its ownership in speculatively held blocks -- the old farm houses gone to pot, their fields in weeds or casually tilled or grazed to merit agricultural taxation -- avouches the certainty of continuing sprawl.

The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior United States. Dept. of the Interior.

It will do so, he avouches, with a gentle blue flame of great beauty and serenity.

Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned Christopher Morley 1923

He was torn to pieces with a bear: this avouches the shepherd’s son, who has not only his innocence—which seems much—to justify him, but a handkerchief and rings of his that Paulina knows.

Act V. Scene II. The Winter’s Tale 1914

Cid is highly idealized; he is no longer fractious with respect to his monarch, Alfonso of Castile, as history shows him to have been, and when he has achieved independence he still avouches himself an adherent of that monarch.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913