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noun

Avouch n. Evidence; declaration. (Obs.) "The sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes."

verb

Avouch v. t. (past & past part. avouched; pres. part. avouching)

To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority. (Obs.) "They avouch many successions of authorities."

To maintain a just or true; to vouch for. "We might be disposed to question its authenticity, it if were not avouched by the full evidence."

To declare or assert positively and as matter of fact; to affirm openly. "If this which he avouches does appear." "Such antiquities could have been avouched for the Irish."

To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction. "Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God."

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... graying, his hair was long, And graying and long was he; And I heard this grouch on the shore avouch, In a ...

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