avouchment (noun)

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• avouchment — I noun acknowledgment, adjuration, affirmance, affirmation, assertion, asseveration, assurance, attest, attestation, averment, avowal, avowance, declaration, formulation, oath, open statement of affirmation, positive assertion, positive statement …   Law dictionary

• avouchment — noun Date: 1574 an act of avouching ; avowal …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• avouchment — noun a) The act of avouching. b) A positive declaration …   Wiktionary

• avouchment — noun a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something • Syn: ↑avowal, ↑affirmation • Derivationally related forms: ↑affirm (for: ↑affirmation), ↑avow (for: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• avouch — verb archaic affirm or assert. Derivatives avouchment noun Origin C15: from OFr. avochier, from L. advocare summon in defence …   English new terms dictionary

• avouch — /əˈvaʊtʃ/ (say uh vowch) verb (t) Archaic 1. to make frank affirmation of; declare or assert with positiveness. 2. to assume responsibility for; guarantee. 3. to admit; confess. {Middle English avouche(n), from Old French avochier, from Latin… …  

• asseveration — noun a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary) • Syn: ↑assertion, ↑averment • Derivationally related forms: ↑asseverate, ↑aver (for: ↑averment), ↑assert …   Useful english dictionary

• avowal — noun a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something • Syn: ↑avouchment, ↑affirmation • Derivationally related forms: ↑affirm (for: ↑affirmation), ↑avow • …   Useful english dictionary

• professing — noun an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion a profession of disagreement • Syn: ↑profession • Derivationally related forms: ↑profess, ↑profess (for: ↑profession) …   Useful english dictionary

• reaffirmation — noun renewed affirmation • Syn: ↑reassertion • Derivationally related forms: ↑reaffirm, ↑reassert (for: ↑reassertion) • Hypernyms: ↑avowal, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• reassertion — noun renewed affirmation • Syn: ↑reaffirmation • Derivationally related forms: ↑reaffirm (for: ↑reaffirmation), ↑reassert • Hypernyms: ↑avowal, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary