Vouch vs Confirm - What's the difference?
vouch | confirm | Synonyms |
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
To back; to support; to confirm.
* Milton
To call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good a warranty of title.
* Blackstone
(obsolete) To call; to summon.
* Sir T. Elyot
To bear witness; to give testimony or full attestation.
* Jonathan Swift
To call as a witness.
* Dryden
To assert; to aver; to declare.
Warrant; attestation.
To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.
(Christianity) To administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone).
* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 35:
To assure the accuracy of previous statements.
As verbs the difference between vouch and confirm
is that vouch is to take responsibility for; to express confidence in; to witness; to obtest while confirm is to strengthen; to make firm or resolute.As a noun vouch
is warrant; attestation.vouch
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Verb
(es)- They made him ashamed to vouch the truth of the relation, and afterwards to credit it.
- I can vouch that the match took place.
- Me damp horror chilled / At such bold words vouched with a deed so bold.
- He vouches' the tenant in tail, who ' vouches over the common vouchee.
- [They] vouch (as I might say) to their aid the authority of the writers.
- He will not believe her until the elector of Hanover shall vouch for the truth of what she has affirmed.
- Vouch the silent stars and conscious moon.
- (Shakespeare)
Noun
(es)confirm
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Alternative forms
* confirme (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII, was baptized and confirmed at the age of three days.