avouch v : admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about [syn: avow] [ant: disavow]

English

Verb

1. To freely and openly admit.
2. To confess.
3. To confirm or verify, to affirm the validity of.

Quotations

1. "Before my God, I might not this believe

   Without the sensible and true avouch

   Of mine own eyes.'' - Horatio, in "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare (act 1 scene 1 l 55-57)

acknowledge, admit, affirm, allege, announce, annunciate, argue, assert, assever, asseverate, assure, attest, aver, avow, bear witness, certify, confess, confirm, contend, corroborate, countersign, declare, depone, depose, disclose, enunciate, express, express the belief, give evidence, guarantee, have, hold, insist, issue a manifesto, lay down, maintain, make a promise, manifesto, own, pledge, plight, predicate, proclaim, profess, promise, pronounce, protest, put, put it, say, set down, speak, speak out, speak up, stand for, stand on, state, submit, swear, testify, troth, underwrite, vouch, vow, warrant, witness