Word Meanings - AVOUCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

thing, to advocate, fr. L. advocare to call to; ad + vocare to call. 1. To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority. They avouch many successions of authorities. Coke. 2. To maintain a just or true; to vouch for. We might be disposed to question

Additional info about word: AVOUCH

thing, to advocate, fr. L. advocare to call to; ad + vocare to call. 1. To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority. They avouch many successions of authorities. Coke. 2. To maintain a just or true; to vouch for. We might be disposed to question its authencity, it if were not avouched by the full evidence. Milman. 3. To declare or assert positively and as matter of fact; to affirm openly. If this which he avouches does appear. Shak. Such antiquities could have been avouched for the Irish. Spenser. 4. To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction. Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God. Deut. xxvi. 17.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AVOUCH)

• Assert
• Asseverate
• declare
• pronounce
• depose
• maintain
• statement
• avow
• avouch
• affirm
• allege
• protest
• claim
• Certify
• Acknowledge
• aver
• attest
• vouch
• testify
• demonstrate
• prove
• evidence
• inform
• assure

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of AVOUCH)

• Forego
• waive
• disclaim
• abjure
• disavow
• abandon
• concede
• surrender
• repudiate

Related words: (words related to AVOUCH)

• PROVENTRIULUS
  The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
• PROVERBIAL
  1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir
• INFORMITY
  Want of regular form; shapelessness.
• MAINTAIN
  by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace;
• ASSURER
  1. One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. 2. One who takes out a life assurance policy.
• AVOUCHMENT
  The act of avouching; positive declaration. Milton.
• INFORMOUS
  Of irregular form; shapeless. Sir T. Browne.
• AFFIRMATIVELY
  In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
• ASSERT
  self, claim, maintain; ad + serere to join or bind together. See 1. To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to
• PROVENCAL
  Of or pertaining to Provence or its inhabitants.
• ASSERTORY
  Affirming; maintaining. Arguments . . . assertory, not probatory. Jer. Taylor. An assertory, not a promissory, declaration. Bentham. A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual. Sir W. Hamilton.
• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• AVOUCHABLE
  Capable of being avouched.
• DISAVOWMENT
  Disavowal. Wotton.
• ACKNOWLEDGE
  1. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. 2. To own
• DISAVOWER
  One who disavows.
• VOUCHMENT
  A solemn assertion.
• DEMONSTRATER
  See DEMONSTRATOR
• DECLAREMENT
  Declaration.
• PROTESTATION
  Formerly, a declaration in common-law pleading, by which the party interposes an oblique allegation or denial of some fact, protesting that it does or does not exist, and at the same time avoiding a direct affirmation or denial. (more info) 1.
• INEVIDENCE
  Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• WELL-INFORMED
  Correctly informed; provided with information; well furnished with authentic knowledge; intelligent.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
• UNASSURED
  1. Not assured; not bold or confident. 2. Not to be trusted. Spenser. 3. Not insured against loss; as, unassured goods.
• RECLAIMER
  One who reclaims.
• ACCLAIM
  1. To applaud. "A glad acclaiming train." Thomson. 2. To declare by acclamations. While the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors. Smollett. 3. To shout; as, to acclaim my joy.
• MISPRONOUNCE
  To pronounce incorrectly.