Vouch

/ˈvaʊt͡ʃ/ · verb

Meaning

To call on (someone) to be a witness to something..

Definitions by Sense

1. To call on (someone) to be a witness to something.
2. To cite or rely on (an authority, a written work, etc.) in support of one's actions or opinions.
3. To affirm or warrant the correctness or truth of (something); also, to affirm or warrant (the truth of an assertion or statement).
4. To bear witness or testify to the nature or qualities (of someone or something).
5. To back, confirm, or support (someone or something) with credible evidence or proof.
6. Synonym of vouchsafe (“to condescendingly or graciously give or grant (something)”).
7. To assert, aver, or declare (something).
8. In full vouch to warrant or vouch to warranty: to summon (someone) into court to establish a warranty of title to land.

Example Sentences

Nor need I ſpeak my Deeds, for thoſe you ſee, The Sun and Day are Witneſſes for me. Let him who fights unſeen, relate his own, And vouch the ſilent Stars, and conſcious Moon.

But the most catholike and renoumed doctours of Christes religion in the corroboration of their argumentes and sentences, do alledge the same histories and vouche (as I mought say) to their ayde the autoritie of the writars.

[F]or more credit to vvhich aſſertion hee vouched ſundry books, and acts, […]

Pray tell us where your moderate (for great ones you acknowledg to do harm, and to be uſeleſs) Penalties have been uſed, with ſuch Succeſs, that we may be paſt doubt too. If you can ſhew no ſuch place, do you not vouch Experience where you have none?

Nay tis moſt credible, we heere receiue it, A certaintie vouch'd from our Coſin Auſtria, […]

Deliuer them this Paper: hauing read it, Bid them repayre to th' Market place, where I Euen in theirs, and in the Commons eares Will vouch the truth of it.

[T]hey have made him aſham'd firſt to Vouch the Truth of the Relation, and afterwards even to Credit it.

Hold it fast and guard it well! Go and see and vouch for certain, then come back and never tell Living soul but us; and haply, prove our sky from cloud as clear, There may we four meet, praise fortune just as now, another year!

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• vouches
• vouching
• vouched

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