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AVOUCHMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does avouchment mean? 

AVOUCHMENT (noun)
  The noun AVOUCHMENT has 1 sense:

1. a statement asserting the existence or the truth of somethingplay

  Familiarity information: AVOUCHMENT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AVOUCHMENT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A statement asserting the existence or the truth of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

affirmation; avouchment; avowal

Hypernyms ("avouchment" is a kind of...):

assertion; asseveration; averment (a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "avouchment"):

reaffirmation; reassertion (renewed affirmation)

professing; profession (an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion)

affirmative (a reply of affirmation)


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