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Definition of Avouchers
1. avoucher [n] - See also: avoucher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Avouchers
Literary usage of Avouchers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"Traitorous speeches were also charged upon him, spoken two years before in the
church of St. Peter's in the Poor, in Broad-street; the avouchers thereof ..."
2. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"... the avouchers thereof pretending, that, as hitherto they had concealed them
for love of themselves, fearing Cromwell's greatness, so now, ..."
3. Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England by Cotton Mather (1853)
"They that are regularly taken in with their parents, are reputed to be
visible "entertainers of the covenant and avouchers of God" to be their God: ..."
4. Japan and Her People by Andrew Steinmetz (1859)
"According to some avouchers their garments are splendid, and subject to the same
destructive rule as the things used by their lord and master ..."
5. The History of the Worthies of England by Thomas Fuller (1840)
"... not to say lie along;) except the avouchers be as incurious of their credit
as the traveller was, who, affirming that he saw bees as big as dogs, ..."
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