Avouch vs Contend - What's the difference?
avouch | contend | Related terms |
To declare freely and openly; to assert.
* Shakespeare
* Spenser
To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxvi. 17
To confirm or verify, to affirm the validity of.
* Milman
To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority.
* Edward Coke
(obsolete) evidence; declaration
* Shakespeare
to strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
* Bible, Deuteronomy ii. 9
* Shakespeare
to struggle or exert one's self to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
* Dryden
to strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.
* John Locke
* Dr H. More
Avouch is a related term of contend.
As verbs the difference between avouch and contend
is that avouch is to declare freely and openly; to assert while contend is to strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.As a noun avouch
is (obsolete) evidence; declaration.avouch
English
Verb
(es)- if this which he avouches does appear
- Such antiquities could have been avouched for the Irish.
- Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God.
- We might be disposed to question its authenticity, it if were not avouched by the full evidence.
- They avouch many successions of authorities.
Noun
(-)- The sensible and true avouch / Of mine own eyes.
contend
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(en verb)- The Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle.
- For never two such kingdoms did contend without much fall of blood.
- You sit above, and see vain men below / Contend for what you only can bestow.
- The question which our author would contend for.
- Many things he fiercely contended about were trivial.