avourie

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Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old French avoerie, avouerie, from avoer (avow), from Latin advocō (call, console).

Noun

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avourie (plural avouries)

  1. (law) acknowledgment (as of a child, of property)
  2. (law) avowry (act of justifying distraint)
  3. protection, patronage
    • c. 1302, “Song on the Flemish Insurrection”, in Thomas Wright, editor, The Political Songs of England, from the Reign of John to that of Edward II., published 1839, page 189:
      Y telle ou for sothe, for al huere bobaunce, / Ne for the avowerie of the Kyng of France / Tuenti score ant fyve haden their meschaunce by day ant eke by nyht.
      I tell you for truth, for all their boasting, / and despite the patronage of the King of France, / twenty score and five had their mischance, by day and also by night.
  4. protector, patron saint
  5. authorization
  6. (ecclesiastical) advowson

Descendants

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  • English: avowry, advowry

References

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