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Vouch   /vaʊtʃ/   Listen
verb
Vouch  v. t.  (past & past part. vouched; pres. part. vouching)  
1.
To call; to summon. (Obs.) "(They) vouch (as I might say) to their aid the authority of the writers."
2.
To call upon to witness; to obtest. "Vouch the silent stars and conscious moon."
3.
To warrant; to maintain by affirmations; to attest; to affirm; to avouch. "They made him ashamed to vouch the truth of the relation, and afterwards to credit it."
4.
To back; to support; to confirm; to establish. "Me damp horror chilled At such bold words vouched with a deed so bold."
5.
(Law) To call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good a warranty of title. "He vouches the tenant in tail, who vouches over the common vouchee."
Synonyms: To obtest; declare; affirm; attest; warrant; confirm; asseverate; aver; protest; assure.


Vouch  v. i.  
1.
To bear witness; to give testimony or full attestation. "He will not believe her until the elector of Hanover shall vouch for the truth of what she has... affirmed."
2.
To assert; to aver; to declare.


noun
Vouch  n.  Warrant; attestation. (Obs.) "The vouch of very malice itself."





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"Vouch" Quotes from Famous Books



... travels that has ever been written. We heartily recommend THIS BOOK to the reading community for perusal, as it presents a life out of the usual routine of business, and is checkered with adventures which have tried this bold and daring man. We are cognizant of most of the details of the book, and vouch for their accuracy. ...
— The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself • De Witt C. Peters
... sort of talk they so greatly terrified their children, that one (a big hulking boy) must at last be torn screaming from the schooner's side. And their fears were wholly groundless. I have little doubt they were not suffered to be idle; but I can vouch for it that they were kindly and generously used. For, the matter of a year later, I was once more shipmate with these inconsistent wanderers on board the Janet Nicoll. Their fare was paid by Tembinok'; they who had gone ashore from the ...
— In the South Seas • Robert Louis Stevenson
... no little excitement, and it was said that a private detective agency had been engaged by the faculty. Of the truth of this no one could vouch. ...
— Andy at Yale - The Great Quadrangle Mystery • Roy Eliot Stokes
... of rearing silkworms, which are liable to perish, since innocence is like a medlar, and ripens quickly on the straw. There were, however, some girls noted for it in Touraine, who passed for virgins in the convents of the religious, but I cannot vouch for these, not having proceeded to verify them in the manner laid down by Verville, in order to make sure of the perfect virtue of women. However, Marie Fiquet followed the wise counsel of her mother, and would take no notice of ...
— Droll Stories, Complete - Collected From The Abbeys Of Touraine • Honore de Balzac
... out her material wants, there was nothing but a nebulous craving for—what? Love, she assumed. And she could not define love, except as some incomprehensible transport of emotion which irresistibly drew a man and a woman together, a divine fire kindled in two hearts. It was not a thing she could vouch for by personal experience. It might never touch and warm her, that divine fire. Instinct did now and then warn her that some time it would wrap her like a flame. But in the meantime—Life had her in midstream of its remorseless, drab current, ...
— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair


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