avow
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English avowen, from Old French avouer, from Latin advoco, from ad ("to") + vocare ("to call").
Pronunciation- IPA: /əˈvaʊ/
avow (avows, present participle avowing; simple past and past participle avowed)
- (transitive) To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly.
- 1858, Henry Stephens Randall, The Life of Thomas Jefferson, volume 1, page 461:
- […] in 1786, and for some period later, there were few, if any, prominent Americans, who avowed themselves in favor of broadly democratic systems.
- (transitive) To bind or devote by a vow.
- (legal) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See avowry.
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC ↗:
- avow himself the accomplice of his crimes
- French: avouer, confesser
- German: bekennen, gestehen
- Portuguese: admitir
- Russian: признава́ть
- Spanish: confesar, admitir, reconocer
avow
- (obsolete) avowal
- 1697, Virgil, “The Twelfth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC ↗:
- without thy Knowledge and Avow
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