avouch

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Before my God, I might not this believe, without the sensible and true avouch of mine own eyes.

From Textbooks • Mar. 27, 2020

The parochial resolutioners, amounting in all to ten, were, I can honestly avouch, scarce at all missed in a congregation of nearly as many hundreds.

From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Miller, Hugh

And now, amiable and considerate reader, you have "ab imo pectore" my honest avouch for what I propose to lay before you, and a plain confession of my weaknesses.

From Quodlibet by Kennedy, John Pendleton

Did the writers of the four gospels have "the sensible and true avouch of their own eyes and ears" in that behalf?

From Ingersollia Gems of Thought from the Lectures, Speeches, and Conversations of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Representative of His Opinions and Beliefs by Ingersoll, Robert Green

Avow and avouch take a direct object; aver is followed by a conjunction: a man avows his faith, avouches a deed, avers that he was present.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin