| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Present participle | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb avouch.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (avouch) | 1. Admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about.[Wordnet]. 2. To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority.[Websters]. 3. To maintain a just or true; to vouch for.[Websters]. 4. To declare or assert positively and as matter of fact; to affirm openly.[Websters]. 5. To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: avouching, avouched, avouches, avoucher, avouchers, avouchingly and avouchedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "AVOUCHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Specialty Definition: AVOUCHING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Affirming; calling in to maintain; vindicating.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of avouch. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: avouch
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| To avouch | Law | A testator may be held to have testamentary capacity although suffering from the effects of a blow on the head received in a fall. A medical man who avouches a will by signing as a witness ought to be prepared to state that the person purporting to make the will had sufficient mental capacity for the purpose. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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