different between avouch vs protest

English

Etymology

From Old French avouchier, from Latin advoc?re, present active infinitive of advoc?. Doublet of advocate, advoke, and avow.

Verb

avouch (third-person singular simple present avouches, present participle avouching, simple past and past participle avouched)

1. To declare freely and openly; to assert.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland, Dublin: Hibernia Press, 1809, p. 76,^[1]

     Neither indeede would I have thought, that any such antiquities could have been avouched for the Irish, that maketh me the more to long to see some other of your observations, which you have gathered out of that country […]

   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene 5,^[2]

     If this which he avouches does appear,

     There is nor flying hence nor tarrying here.

2. To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction.
   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Deuteronomy 26:17-18,^[3]

     Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice: And the Lord hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;
3. To confirm or verify, to affirm the validity of.
   • 1571, Arthur Golding, The Psalmes of David and others. With M. John Calvins Commentaries, “Epistle Dedicatorie,”^[4]

     For ( […] as the sorowfull dooings of our present dayes do too certeinly avouch) greate men hurt not the common weale so much by beeing evil in respect of themselves, as by drawing others unto evil by their evil example.

   • 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity, London: John Murray, Volume 2, Book 4, Chapter 7, p. 159,^[5]

     As a great public document, addressed to the whole Christian world by him who aspired to be the first ecclesiastic, we might be disposed to question its authenticity, if it were not avouched by the full evidence in its favour and its agreement with all the events of the period.

4. To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority.
   • 1628, Edward Coke, Institutes of the Lawes of England, Volume 1, Book 3, Chapter 5 “Of Estates upon Condition,” Section 350, p. 216,^[6]

     And for proofe of their opinion they avouch many successions of authorities that no fee simple should passe before the condition performed.

Related terms

• avouchment
• vouch

Translations

Noun

avouch (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) evidence; declaration
   • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 1,^[7]

     Before my God, I might not this believe

     Without the sensible and true avouch

     Of mine own eyes.

English

Etymology

From the Middle English verb protesten, from Old French protester, from Latin pr?test?r?, present active infinitive of pr?testor, from pr? + testor, from testis (“witness”).

Pronunciation

Noun

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p???.t?st/
• (US) enPR: pr??t?st, IPA^(key): /?p?o?.t?st/
• Hyphenation: pro?test

Verb

• enPR: pr?.t?st?, IPA^(key): /p???t?st/
• Rhymes: -?st
• Hyphenation: pro?test

Verb

protest (third-person singular simple present protests, present participle protesting, simple past and past participle protested)

1. (intransitive) To make a strong objection.
2. (transitive) To affirm (something).
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

     Our youth, now, emboldened with his success, resolved to push the matter farther, and ventured even to beg her recommendation of him to her father's service; protesting that he thought him one of the honestest fellows in the country, and extremely well qualified for the place of a gamekeeper, which luckily then happened to be vacant.

   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, Ch.8

     She flashed a smile at me, and, protesting an engagement with her dentist, jauntily walked on.

3. (transitive, chiefly Canada, US) To object to.

4. To call as a witness in affirming or denying, or to prove an affirmation; to appeal to.
5. (law, transitive) to make a solemn written declaration, in due form, on behalf of the holder, against all parties liable for any loss or damage to be sustained by non-acceptance or non-payment of (a bill or note). This should be made by a notary public, whose seal it is the usual practice to affix.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To publish; to make known.

Translations

Noun

protest (countable and uncountable, plural protests)

1. A formal objection, especially one by a group.

2. A collective gesture of disapproval; a demonstration.

3. The noting by a notary public of an unpaid or unaccepted bill.
4. A written declaration, usually by the master of a ship, stating the circumstances attending loss or damage of ship or cargo, etc.

Synonyms

• dissent
• objection
• protestation

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Potters, potters, spotter, strepto, strepto-

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?prot?st]

Noun

protest m

1. protest

Related terms

• protestní
• protestovat
• protestant
• protestantismus
• protestantský
• protestantství

Further reading

• protest in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• protest in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French [Term?], from Old French [Term?], from Latin protest?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pro??t?st/
• Hyphenation: pro?test
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

protest n (plural protesten, diminutive protestje n)

1. protest (occasion to express dissatisfaction)
2. protest (expression of disagreement)

Hyponyms

• betoging
• demonstratie

Derived terms

Related terms

• protestant
• protesteren

Descendants

• Afrikaans: protes

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin protestari, as for protestere

Noun

protest m (definite singular protesten, indefinite plural protester, definite plural protestene)

1. a protest

Derived terms

• protestmarsj

Related terms

• protestere

References

• “protest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin protestari

Noun

protest m (definite singular protesten, indefinite plural protestar, definite plural protestane)

1. a protest

Derived terms

• protestmarsj

References

• “protest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From German Protest, from Italian protesto, from Latin pr?test?r?, present active infinitive of pr?testor, from pr? + testor, from testis (“witness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pr?.t?st/

Noun

protest m inan

1. (law) protest (formal objection)
2. protest (demonstration)

Declension

Synonyms

• demonstracja

Related terms

• protestant, protestantka
• protestowa?, zaprotestowa?

Further reading

• protest in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• protest in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Back-formation from protesta

Noun

protest n (plural proteste)

1. protest

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Protest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pr?test/
• Hyphenation: pro?test

Noun

pròtest m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. protest

Declension

Synonyms

• pròsvjed

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

protest c

1. protest

Declension

Related terms

• protestera
• protestant

Anagrams

• torpets

Welsh

Etymology

From English protest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pr?t?sd/, [?pr???t??st]

Noun

protest f (plural protestiadau or protestadau)

1. protest, demonstration (collective gesture of disapproval)

   Synonym: gwrthdystiad

Derived terms

• protestio (“to protest”)

Mutation

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “protest”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies