Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Declared; open.
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of avow.
- adj. openly acknowledged
- adj. positively stated
- adj. asserted under oath, or vow
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Openly acknowledged or declared; admitted.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. openly declared as such
Etymologies
- avow + -ed (Wiktionary)
Examples
““Actually, I’ve been known to be witty for a full ten minutes,” Gawain avowed with a lift of his eyebrows.”
“The reclaimed faithful need only forgo the ordination of women and of (I think I should here add the word avowed) homosexuals.”
“It is why Israelis recently voted in right winger Binyamin Netanyahu and why he, in turn, was compelled to name avowed racist Avigdor Lieberman, founder of far-right Yisrael Beitenu (Israel Our Home party, whose electoral base are the immigrants from the former Soviet Union) as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister of Israel.”
“Lordships, -- that is, his avowed appointment of spies and under-agents, who shall carry on the real state business, while there are public and ostensible agents who are not in the secret.”
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12)
“There is a rally waiting for you – 'avowed' protectors of our Constitution and our civil liberties (yeah sure) - in front of the offices of Marco "Amex" Rubio!!!”
Poll: Tea Party allies deny racism element, critics say otherwise
“Obama is not an "avowed" Marxist and I'll bet next month's rent that you cannot define Marxism.”
“GCHQ's cover was blown by Time Out in 1976, but it was only officially "avowed" in 1982 when Geoffrey Prime, a former linguist at GCHQ, was jailed for 38 years for passing secrets to the Russians over a 14-year period.”
The Guardian: Not so secret: deal at the heart of UK-US intelligence
“I especially like the distinction between the "avowed" state, whether in the form of marriage or consecrated life, and the charism of freedom that characterizes the state of those who are called to singlehood.”
“Both consecrated and married life are "avowed" forms of vocation: they are constituted by specific promises.”
“But for the Christian belief system, Anthony could be an "avowed" Buddhist...”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘avowed’.
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
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Quacksalvers et al. Nostrum
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Vocab_TC60Q_txtbook
most vocab in the textbook Page till end chapter 2.
forfeited, nullifying, avowed, libelous, sapped, fascistic, outclassed, revolting, ecumenical, looming, fretful, penitent and 86 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1908 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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Aequoria's list
affect, deleterious, nuance, pliant, verbatim, pertinent, latter, municipality, provincial, voyeuristic, circumlocution, wane and 798 more...
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churlish, polemical, exaltation, docile, esoteric, panache, coercion, restitution, lugubrious, indefatigable, delimit, demarcate and 99 more...
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DEF's list
Obscure Words
obfuscate, harbinger, morose, meniscus, conspicuous, grandiose, cogitated, matron, erudite, oness, apothegms, assuage and 475 more...
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wordsmithing part deux
because wordsmith is not a verb.
enmity, incarnate, chignon, nape, solitude, nocturne, decorum, warren, svelte, interstice, serene, charlotte and 488 more...
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rwkasten's Words
antibody, ossify, oeuvre, emotive, oblong, ululate, amoeba, aeon, outre, perfidy, venal, verity and 55 more...
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Day 17
hack, harry, harrowing, harbinger, hapless, haggle, avowed, hedonism, hauteur, haughty, huffy, hubris and 28 more...
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My Words
ennui, zeitgeist, serendipity, serendipitous, wanderlust, immutable, propensity, predilection, visceral, viscera, milieu, specious and 34 more...
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New words from Reading
woe, kingmaker, tizzy, lark, verity, marzipan, swoon, chutzpah, quiescence, curlicue, bedevil, quixotic and 69 more...
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