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Vouch vs Asseverate - What's the difference?

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Vouch is a related term of asseverate.


As verbs the difference between vouch and asseverate

is that vouch is to take responsibility for; to express confidence in; to witness; to obtest while asseverate is to declare earnestly, seriously, or positively; to affirm.

As a noun vouch

is warrant; attestation.

vouch

English

Verb

(es)
  • To take responsibility for; to express confidence in; to witness; to obtest.
  • To warrant; to maintain by affirmations; to attest; to affirm; to avouch.
  • * Atterbury
  • They made him ashamed to vouch the truth of the relation, and afterwards to credit it.
    I can vouch that the match took place.
  • To back; to support; to confirm.
  • * Milton
  • Me damp horror chilled / At such bold words vouched with a deed so bold.
  • To call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good a warranty of title.
  • * Blackstone
  • He vouches' the tenant in tail, who ' vouches over the common vouchee.
  • (obsolete) To call; to summon.
  • * Sir T. Elyot
  • [They] vouch (as I might say) to their aid the authority of the writers.
  • To bear witness; to give testimony or full attestation.
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • He will not believe her until the elector of Hanover shall vouch for the truth of what she has affirmed.
  • To call as a witness.
  • * Dryden
  • Vouch the silent stars and conscious moon.
  • To assert; to aver; to declare.
  • (Shakespeare)

    Noun

    (es)
  • Warrant; attestation.
  • asseverate

    English

    Verb

    (asseverat)
  • To declare earnestly, seriously, or positively; to affirm.