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✅ To confirm truth ⚖️ To summon legally
to vouch

to vouch

1 9.9
In old law, call someone into court to defend a claim to land
  • verb
  • /vaʊtʃ/
  • Archaic
translation icon : citar ante un tribunal

Examples

  • Clerk brought him in and vouched for him.

    Broadcast News (1987)

  • Boris had come before the rabbis to vouch he was indeed a Jew.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • Sworn in by a fool and vouched for by a scoundrel.

    The Rainmaker (1997)

  • And then the border troll union said we've never vouched for for Biden.

  • He admonishes Jon to remember that literary criticism must be based on tolerance and taste and that no authority should be called upon to vouch for misjudgments about prosody.

    Academic text (2000)

  • As a witness, I will vouch for his good character during the trial.

  • The professor agreed to vouch for the researcher in court to defend the validity of her findings.

  • In medieval times, it was common to vouch for someone's rights to land in court.

Synonyms

to cite
vsto vouch
  • Formal
33 6.4

To officially tell someone to appear before a court

requires someone to defend a title in court
to summons
vsto vouch
  • Formal
14 5.3

To order someone to appear in court

requires someone to defend a title in court
to swear out
vsto vouch
  • Jargon
3 8.4

To tell a court that someone did something wrong so it gives a warrant

requires someone to defend a title in court rather than creating the order

Phrasal Verbs

to vouch for
82 4.9

Say that a person or thing can be trusted

Surface Forms

vouch infinitive
vouched past
vouched past participle
vouching present participle
vouches third person singular

Etymology

Vouch had an older legal use that meant 'to call' someone into court to defend your right, so a person could be 'vouched' in to support a claim. That's why the old legal sense of vouch is about summoning another person to guarantee or defend a title.