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Avow   /əvˈaʊ/   Listen
verb
Avow  v. t. & v. i.  To bind, or to devote, by a vow. (Obs.)


Avow  v. t.  (past & past part. avowed; pres. part. avowing)  
1.
To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes. "Which I to be the of Israel's God Avow, and challenge Dagon to the test."
2.
(Law) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry.
Synonyms: To acknowledge; own; confess. See Confess.


noun
Avow  n.  Avowal. (Obs.)


Avow  n.  A vow or determination. (Archaic)





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... of Ithaca it was that I saw before me, Lady, and that face is mine. I avow myself to be Odysseus, Laertes' ...
— The World's Desire • H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang
... Higher Knowledge of which, too late, some men obtain a glimpse, though they dare not avow it. Such men comprehend the necessity of considering substances not merely in their mathematical properties but also in their entirety, in their occult relations and affinities. The greatest man among you divined, in his latter days, that all was reciprocally cause and effect; that the ...
— Seraphita • Honore de Balzac
... and about music chiefly made to show off the singer, full of the commonplaces that he loves to make "effect" in,—fanaticisms alternating with blas indifference. But this would lead us into a long discussion, and it is our wish here to avoid vexed questions. For the present we will avow no sides, of German or Italian, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various
... the woman has every thing, from the privileges that may be claimed, in an acknowledged confidence, especially in presence. Miss Grandison thus interprets what he said, and strengthens her opinion by some of Dr. Bartlett's late intimations, that he really loves me; but not being at liberty to avow his love, he knew not what to say; and so went as near to a declaration as was possible ...
— The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) • Samuel Richardson
... placed upon the list of Churches printed in its Annual Report. That the Churches thus cooeperating disavow any intention or desire to recognize themselves as a denomination, or to limit their fellowship to the Churches thus cooeperating; but, on the contrary, they avow it both a duty and a pleasure to visit, receive, and cooeperate with Christian Churches, without reference to their taking part in the meetings and efforts of this Cooeperation. Also, that this ...
— A Trip Abroad • Don Carlos Janes


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