Vouch vs Endorse - What's the difference?
vouch | endorse |
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 support, to back, to give one's approval to, especially officially or by signature.
To write one's signature on the back of a cheque, or other negotiable instrument, when transferring it to a third party, or cashing it.
To give an endorsement.
(heraldiccharge) A diminutive of the pale, usually appearing in pairs on either side of a pale.
English words prefixed with en-
As verbs the difference between vouch and endorse
is that vouch is to take responsibility for; to express confidence in; to witness; to obtest while endorse is to support, to back, to give one's approval to, especially officially or by signature.As nouns the difference between vouch and endorse
is that vouch is warrant; attestation while endorse is a diminutive of the pale, usually appearing in pairs on either side of a pale.vouch
English
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)
