📚 Avouch, verb. 🔉 /əˈvaʊtʃ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (archaic • with object): Affirm or assert. ❗️ Examples: 1. The locket contains ringlets which he avouches to be relics of a Spanish girl. 2. Paulina and her friends being gone, I scarce could avouch that I had really seen them. 3. Ask Wall Street and they would enthusiastically avouch that they are quite up to the task - more than able and willing. 4. We might be disposed to question its authenticity, it if were not avouched by the full evidence. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic