[f. as prec. + -MENT.] The action of avouching; assurance, guarantee; positive declaration, assertion.
1574. trans. Marlorat’s Apocalips, 16. The auouchment of the truth.
1649. Milton, Eikon., i. Wks. (1851), 340. The avouchment of that which is so manifestly untrue.
1677. Gilpin, Dæmonol. (1867), 131. The positiveness of avouchments … in such cases, where we want sufficient reason to support what we affirm.
1715. M. Davies, Icon Libel., I. 124. Notwithstanding his avouchments to the contrary.
a. 1884. W. Ward, in Spectator, No. 2911, 487/2. In innumerable past instances the avouchments of memory have been true.
