Avouch

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): (n.) Evidence; declaration.

(2): (v. t.) To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction.

(3): (v. t.) To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority.

(4): (v. t.) To maintain a just or true; to vouch for.

(5): (v. t.) To declare or assert positively and as matter of fact; to affirm openly.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [2]

Avouch . This word, now obsolete except in legal phrases, means to acknowledge .

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]

a - vouch ´: In English Versions of the Bible only in  Deuteronomy 26:17 ,  Deuteronomy 26:18 , in the sense of "to confess," "avow," "publicly and solemnly declare." The Hebrew form is likewise unique (Hiph. of 'āmar ).

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