The Collaborative International Dictionary
Avouchment \A*vouch"ment\, n.
The act of avouching; positive declaration. [Obs.]
--Milton.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of avouch. 2 A positive declaration.
WordNet
n. a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something [syn: avowal, affirmation]
Usage examples of "avouchment".
An outlandish delegate sustained against both these views, with such heat as almost carried conviction, the theory of copulation between women and the males of brutes, his authority being his own avouchment in support of fables such as that of the Minotaur which the genius of the elegant Latin poet has handed down to us in the pages of his Metamorphoses.
An outlandish delegate sustained against both these views, with such heat as almost carried conviction, the theory of copulation between women and the males of brutes, his authority being his own avouchment in support of fables such as that of the Minotaur which the genius of the elegant Latin poet has handed down to us in the pages of his Metamorphoses.