Plural form of 'avowry'; instances of avowing or acts of legal avouching in medieval contexts.
Plural of 'avowry,' from 'avow' plus the legal suffix '-ry' (action or result of). Used in Middle English legal terminology.
Medieval courts had a formal process called 'avowry' where a defendant would vouch for the rightness of their action—it's the legal ancestor of modern 'justification' defenses, and the plural shows how common this tactic was.
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