| 释义 |
avouchment|əˈvaʊtʃmənt|
[f. as prec. + -ment.]
The action of avouching; assurance, guarantee; positive declaration, assertion.
1574tr. Marlorat's Apocalips 16 The auouchment of the truth. 1649Milton Eikon. i. Wks. (1851) 340 The avouchment of that which is so manifestly untrue. 1677Gilpin Dæmonol. (1867) 131 The positiveness of avouchments..in such cases, where we want sufficient reason to support what we affirm. 1715M. Davies Icon Libel. i. 124 Notwithstanding his avouchments to the contrary. a1884W. Ward in Spectator No. 2911, 487/2 In innumerable past instances the avouchments of memory have been true. |