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avouchment

WordNet
  1. (n) avouchment
    a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Avouchment
    The act of avouching; positive declaration.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) avouchment
    The act of avouching; declaration; avowal; acknowledgment.
Quotations
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Usage in scientific papers

And it is no good avouching that the off-shell dependence of the propagator on the momentum looks ‘reasonable’, with ‘suitable behaviour’ in the infrared or ultraviolet limits, since one can change the behaviour at will, just by choosing the gauge function M however one likes.
A critique of the gauge technique

Usage in literature

Besides, it is avouched by Solomon that infinite is the number of fools. "Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete." by Francois Rabelais

Stay, is it because you were my husband once, as these lines avouch? "The Cloister and the Hearth" by Charles Reade

He, of course, avouched his innocence, and offered his body for battle. "The Talisman" by Sir Walter Scott

His own deeds shall avouch him for a great statesman, a great soldier, a true lover of his country, a merciful and generous conqueror. "The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 1 (of 4)" by Thomas Babington Macaulay

Can he avouch, or answer what he claimed? "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" by Lord Byron

You avouch him to be what he represents himself? "The Chaplet of Pearls" by Charlotte M. Yonge

Can he avouch the fidelity of his correspondent? "The World's Greatest Books, Vol VI." by Various

It had not been wrought had I been present; but here are those who can avouch it. "More Bywords" by Charlotte M. Yonge

Is he our Lord and master, and should we not own and avouch him? "Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life" by John Brown (of Wamphray)

The headaches which she avouched were not pretended. "The American Baron" by James De Mille

Usage in poetry
There we shall see how he was touch'd
With all our grief and pain
(As in his word he hath avouch'd),
When we with him shall reign;