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vouch /vowch/ intransitive verb To bear witness, or be surety (with for) transitive verb- To support by evidence
- To testify (that)
- To be sponsor for (rare)
- To guarantee legal possession of (Shakespeare)
- To vouchsafe, condescend to grant (archaic)
- To second, support (Milton)
- To call upon to witness, esp to a title to real estate (also vouch to warrant, vouch to warranty; archaic)
- To cite as authority (obsolete)
- To assert, declare (obsolete)
- To assert or guarantee to be true (obsolete)
noun- An assertion
- An attestation
ORIGIN: OFr voucher, vocher to call to defend, from L vocāre to call voucheeˈ noun - The person summoned to witness to a title to real estate
- A person quoted as authority or appealed to as witness
vouchˈer noun - (partly Anglo-Fr voucher, infinitive; partly sfx -er) a piece of evidence, or a written document serving as proof
- A paper that confirms the truth of anything, such as a receipt, a certificate of correctness
- A ticket, etc, substituting or exchangeable for cash or goods
- A person who vouches or gives witness
- The act of vouching to warrant (obsolete law)
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