"avouch" meaning in English

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          "text": "Neither indeede would I have thought, that any such antiquities could have been avouched for the Irish, that maketh me the more to long to see some other of your observations, which you have gathered out of that country […]",
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          "text": "If this which he avouches does appear,\nThere is nor flying hence nor tarrying here.",
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        "To declare freely and openly; to assert."
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          "freely"
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          "openly",
          "openly"
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          "assert",
          "assert"
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          "roman": "deklariram",
          "sense": "to declare freely",
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          "text": "Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice: And the Lord hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;",
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          "text": "[…] send me that hag hither; she shall avouch what it was that she hath given to the wretch Dryfesdale, or the pilniewinks and thumbikins shall wrench it out of her finger-joints.",
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        "To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction."
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          "sense": "to admit; to confess",
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          "text": "For ([…] as the sorowfull dooings of our present dayes do too certeinly avouch) greate men hurt not the common weale so much by beeing evil in respect of themselves, as by drawing others unto evil by their evil example.",
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          "roman": "potvǎrždavam",
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          "text": "And for proofe of their opinion they avouch many successions of authorities that no fee simple should passe before the condition performed.",
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        "To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority."
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          "text": "Before my God, I might not this believe\nWithout the sensible and true avouch\nOf mine own eyes.",
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        "(obsolete) evidence; declaration"
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        "2": "advocate",
        "3": "advoke",
        "4": "avow"
      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of advocate, advoke, and avow",
      "name": "doublet"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old French avouchier, from Latin advocāre, present active infinitive of advocō. Doublet of advocate, advoke, and avow.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "avouch (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:",
          "text": "Before my God, I might not this believe\nWithout the sensible and true avouch\nOf mine own eyes.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "evidence; declaration"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "evidence",
          "evidence"
        ],
        [
          "declaration",
          "declaration"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) evidence; declaration"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/əˈvaʊt͡ʃ/"
    },
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aʊtʃ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "avouch"
}