word of the day: avouch

The word of the day is avouch:

1. to make frank acknowledgment or affirmation of; declare or assert with positiveness.

2. to assume responsibility for; vouch for; guarantee.

3. to admit; confess.

Middle English avouchen < Middle French avouchier < Latin advocāre. (dictionary.com) 

"'Capriccio may be capricious, but he hasn't a duplicitous bone in his skull,' avouched Ilona's maid-in-waiting while suspicions slithered and surged at court and amplified abroad."

 - Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness: A Dictionarrative