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Assure vs Avouch - What's the difference?

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In obsolete terms the difference between assure and avouch

is that assure is to guarantee, promise (to do something) while avouch is evidence; declaration.

As verbs the difference between assure and avouch

is that assure is to make sure and secure while avouch is to declare freely and openly; to assert.

As a noun avouch is

evidence; declaration.

assure

English

Verb

(assur)
  • To make sure and secure.
  • To give (someone) confidence in the trustworthiness of (something).
    • I assure you that the program will work smoothly when we demonstrate it to the client.
    He assured of his commitment to her happiness.
  • (obsolete) To guarantee, promise (to do something).
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.ii:
    • That as a law for euer should endure; / Which to obserue in word of knights they did assure .
  • To reassure.

    • avouch

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To declare freely and openly; to assert.
  • * Shakespeare
    • if this which he avouches does appear
  • * Spenser
    • Such antiquities could have been avouched for the Irish.
  • To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction.
  • * Bible, Deuteronomy xxvi. 17
    • Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God.
  • To confirm or verify, to affirm the validity of.
  • * Milman
    • We might be disposed to question its authenticity, it if were not avouched by the full evidence.
  • To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority.
  • * Edward Coke
    • They avouch many successions of authorities.

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) evidence; declaration
  • * Shakespeare
    • The sensible and true avouch / Of mine own eyes.