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avow - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To acknowledge or declare openly and unashamedly.
- transitive verb To state positively; declare.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To bind with a vow.
- 2. To devote or dedicate by a vow; vow.
- To vow to do or keep; promise; undertake.
- To bind one's self by a vow; make a vow; vow.
- noun A vow; a promise.
- To own or acknowledge obligation or relation to, as a person: as, he avowed him for his son.
- To sanction; approve.
- To declare openly, often with a view to justify, maintain, or defend: as, to
avow one's principles. - Specifically, in law, to acknowledge and justify, as when the distrainer of goods defends in an action of replevin, and avows the taking, but insists that such taking was legal. See
avowry , 1. - 5. To admit or confess openly or frankly; acknowledge; own: as, to
avow one's self a convert. - Synonyms To affirm, assert, profess. Admit, Confess, etc. See
acknowledge . - In law, to justify or maintain an act done, specifically a distress for rent taken in one's own right.
- noun An avowal; a bold declaration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Avowal.
- noun Archaic A vow or determination.
- transitive verb To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly.
- transitive verb (Law) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See
Avowry . - verb obsolete To bind, or to devote, by a vow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
declare openly andboldly , as something believed to be right; toown ,acknowledge orconfess frankly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
- verb admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English avowen, from Old French avouer, from Latin advocāre, to call upon; see advocate.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Old French avouer, from Latin advocare ("to call to, call upon, hence to call as a witness, defender, patron, or advocate"), from ad ("to") + vocare ("to call").
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Examples
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To punish men for beliefs they dare to avow is to risk punishing the sincere and to allow hypocrites to go unpunished.
LIBERALISM JOHN PLAMENATZ 1968
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Ennahda party leaders have said that the Assembly will focus on democracy, human rights and a free-market economy -- and will not introduce Sharia law or other Islamic concepts to alter what they avow to be a secular constitutional text.
Daniel Wagner: Tunisia's Constitutional Challenge Daniel Wagner 2012
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Federation, speaking of the National Civic Federation soon after its inception, said: To fall into one another's arms, to avow friendship, to express regret at the injury which has been done, would not alter the facts of the situation.
THE CLASS STRUGGLE 2010
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In order to achieve full civil rights now, we avow:
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For many Christians, America has become a fierce goddess, who claims more of their loyalty than the God in whose name they have been baptized and whose absolute Lordship they solemnly avow.
Miroslav Volf: Did 9/11 Make Us Morally 'Better'? Miroslav Volf 2011
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In order to achieve full civil rights now, we avow:
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Yet she could not bring herself to avow it openly, either at or after the luncheon.
Latin America 2010
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They openly avow their objective is to institute Sharia law wherever they rule.
Ken Blackwell: Arab Spring/Islamist Fall Ken Blackwell 2011
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In order to achieve full civil rights now, we avow:
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For many Christians, America has become a fierce goddess, who claims more of their loyalty than the God in whose name they have been baptized and whose absolute Lordship they solemnly avow.
Miroslav Volf: Did 9/11 Make Us Morally 'Better'? Miroslav Volf 2011
Related Words
synonyms (87)
Words with the same meaning
- accept
- acknowledge
- admit
- admit everything
- affirm
- agree provisionally
- allege
- allow
- announce
- annunciate
- argue
- assent grudgingly
- assert
- assever
- asseverate
- attest
- aver
- avouch
- avowal
- bear witness
- certify
- claim
- come clean
- concede
- confess
- contend
- cop a plea
- declare
- defend
- depone
- depose
- disclose
- enunciate
- express
- express general agreement
- express the belief
- give evidence
- go along with
- grant
- have
- hold
- insist
- issue a manifesto
- lay down
- let on
- maintain
- manifesto
- not oppose
- open up
- out with it
- own
- own up
- plead guilty
- predicate
- pretend
- pretext
- proclaim
- profess
- pronounce
- protest
- protest too much
- purport
- put
- put it
- recognize
- say
- set down
- speak
- speak out
- speak up
- spill
- spill it
- spit it out
- stand for
- stand on
- state
- submit
- swear
- tell all
- tell the truth
- testify
- vindicate
- vouch
- vow
- warrant
- witness
- yield
antonyms (1)
Words with the opposite meaning
hypernyms (2)
Words that are more generic or abstract
same context (16)
Words that are found in similar contexts
variants (1)
Variants
forms (4)
Forms
rhymes (61)
Words with the same terminal sound
- Bilbao
- Bow
- Chao
- Chow
- Dow
- Frau
- Howe
- Lao
- Liao
- Macao
- Macau
- Mao
- Mindanao
- Plough
- Plow
- Qingdao
- Tao
- Yao
- allow
- bao
- bough
- bow
- brough
- brow
- chow
- ciao
- clough
- cow
- disallow
- disavow
- dow
- endow
- fao
- frau
- gow
- hao
- hau
- how
- howe
- kowtow
- lough
- mao
- meow
- now
- ow
- plough
- plow
- pow
- powe
- prow
- sao
- scow
- shough
- skow
- sow
- tao
- thao
- thou
- vow
- wow
- yow
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