Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A frank admission or acknowledgment.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An open declaration; a frank acknowledgment.
Wiktionary
- n. An open declaration of affirmation or admission of knowledge.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An open declaration; frank acknowledgment.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something
Etymologies
- avow + -al (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Thus, in one place we have the following avowal, which is only not _naïf_ because evidently put in to please the prejudices of sympathetically narrow readers.”
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
“A woman less fine than you would have protested against this sudden avowal, which is only too like me -- too like Hugo.”
“I cannot recall the avowal of my earnest and deep attachment to you, and I do not recall it. ”
“And then, when the last of his loathsome secrets has been told, when he has nothing left either to gain or to conceal, then he rises up into a perfect bankrupt sublimity and makes the great avowal which is the whole pivot and meaning of the poem.”
“I cannot recall the avowal of my earnest and deep attachment to you, and I do not recall it.’”
“And then, on the evening of August 11th, there suddenly occurred one of these dramatic turns of events that have become almost common in Iran: on a popular television program, the regime broadcast the so-called "avowal" of the young woman who, wearing a black chador which covered all but her nose and one of her eyes, holding a sheet of paper in her hands as though reciting a lesson she was having trouble learning, a voice over in Farsi covering her own voice as she expressed herself in her native Azeri, confessed her supposed "complicity" in the murder of her husband.”
The Huffington Post: Bernard-Henri Lévy: Sakineh Must Not Be Stoned
“But with the U.S. Federal Reserve's recently announced avowal of easy monetary policy causing the dollar to flirt with its record low against the yen, Japan's government is turning an increasingly stern eye toward its own central bank for further monetary easing to counter the U.S. action.”
The Wall Street Journal: Pressure Mounts on BOJ to Weaken Yen After U.S. Criticism of Intervention
“The letter notes that the Chinese Constitution claims freedom of speech and the press, but this formal avowal and concrete denial has become a scandalous mark.”
The Wall Street Journal: In China, Even the Premier Is Censored
“There has been no such avowal, openly or otherwise, from the center-right or right to discredit theleft.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Faisal Shahzad Allegedly Admits to Attempted Times Square Bombing
“They may have other motives (e.g., political, ideological, professional interests) as well, but presumably that would be their avowal.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘avowal’.
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Notre Dame de Paris
From Notre Dame de Paris by good ole Victor Hugo. (Also called The Hunchback of Notre Dame.)
cuivres, diable, hawthorn, provost, epithalamium, affrighted, mendicants, vagrants, Styx, chimeras, coif, matagrabolise and 196 more...
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Sense and Sensibility
Words from the book by Jane Austen.
shew, shewn, shewing, shewed, dupe, wither, rambled, extorting, cavil, rap, mildness, controuled and 133 more...
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SAT PSAT ALPHABETICAL A
abandon, abash, abate, abjure, ablution, abnegate, abominable, aboriginal, abortive, abrade, abridge, abrogate and 172 more...
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GRE
Taisha GRE Bible
archaic, archetype, archipelago, architect, archive, arctic, ardor, arduous, argot, arid, armory, arrest and 289 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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Sat Vocabulary List
abandon, abash, abate, abjure, ablution, abnegate, abominable, aboriginal, abortive, abrade, abridge, abrogate and 2155 more...
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clerestory, aleatory, liminal, reclamation, aesthete, myomancy, operationalism, noetic, anastomoses, libertine, tractate, treatise and 36 more...
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the phantom rickshaw
ere, livery, avowal, jhampanies, shale, Waler, solecism, servitor, coolie, wroth, broidery, smother and 6 more...
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