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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Avowed \A*vowed"\, a.
Openly acknowledged or declared; admitted. -- {A*vow"ed*ly},
adv
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Avow \A*vow"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Avowed} (?); p. pr & vb n.
{Avowing}.] [F. avouver fr L. advocare to call to (whence
the meanings, to call upon as superior; recognize as lord,
own confess); ad + vocare to call See {Advocate},
{Avouch}.]
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. --Milton.
2. (Law) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done See
{Avowry}. --Blackstone.
Syn: To acknowledge; own confess. See {Confess}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
avowed
adj 1: openly declared as such "an avowed enemy"; "her professed
love of everything about that country"; "McKinley was
assassinated by a professed anarchist" [syn: {avowed(a)},
{professed(a)}]
2: asserted as true under oath; "a statement attested by
witnesses" [syn: {attested}]
3: openly affirmed; "an avowed Jeffersonian" [syn: {avowed(a)}]
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