Definitions for avow
əˈvaʊavow

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swearverb

   to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true

   "Before God I swear I am innocent"

2. avow, avouchverb

   admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. avowverb

   To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly.

   Vito avowed to take revenge on the man who murdered his father.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To AVOWverb

   To declare with confidence; to justify; not to dissemble.

   Etymology: avouer, Fr.

   His cruel stepdame seeing what was done,
   Her wicked days with wretched knife did end;
   In death avowing th’ innocence of her son. Fairy Queen.

   He that delivers them mentions his doing it upon his own particular knowledge, or the relation of some credible person, avowing it upon his own experience. Boyle.

   Left to myself, I must avow, I strove,
   From publick shame to skreen my secret love. Dryden.

   Such assertions proceed from principles which cannot be avowed by those who are for preserving church and state. Jonathan Swift.

   Then blaz’d his smother’d flame, avow’d and bold. James Thomson.

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1. avow

   Avow refers to the act of asserting, affirming, or stating openly, confidently, and without shame or resistance, often about something unusual, controversial, or personal. It can also mean to admit openly and bluntly; to confess.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Avowverb

   to declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes

2. Avowverb

   to acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry

3. Avownoun

   avowal

4. Avownoun

   to bind, or to devote, by a vow

5. Avownoun

   a vow or determination

6. Etymology: [OF. avouer, fr. LL. votare to vow, fr. L. votun. See Vote, n.]

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1. Avow

   a-vow′, v.t. to declare openly: to own or confess: to affirm or maintain: (law) to justify an act done.—n. a solemn promise: a vow.—pa.p. as adj. self-acknowledged.—adj. Avow′able.—ns. Avow′ableness, Avow′ance (obs.); Avow′al, a positive declaration: a frank confession.—adv. Avow′edly.—n. Avow′ry (law), the act of avowing and justifying in one's own right the distraining of goods: (obs.) advocacy considered as personified in a patron saint. [O. Fr. avouer, orig. to swear fealty to—L. ad, and Low L. votāre—votum, a vow. See Vow.]

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1. AVOW

   What does AVOW stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the AVOW acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

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How to pronounce avow?

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   Daniel

   British

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   Karen

   Australian

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How to say avow in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of avow in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of avow in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of avow in a Sentence

1. Edgar Allan Poe:

   Take this kiss upon the brow and, in parting from you now, thus much let me avow -- you are not wrong who deem that my days have been a dream yet if hope has flown away in a night, or in a day, in a vision, or in none, is it therefore the less gone all that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

2. William Harvey:

   I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=avow
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Avow
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=avow
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/avow
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=avow
7. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=avow