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Middle English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French avoerie, avouerie, from avoer (“avow”), from Latin advocō (“call, console”).
Noun
avourie (plural avouries)
- (law) acknowledgment (as of a child, of property)
- (law) avowry (act of justifying distraint)
- 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.
- protector, patron saint
- authorization
- (ecclesiastical) advowson
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