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US
/əˈvaʊ/
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[ UK /ɐvˈaʊ/ ]
[ UK /ɐvˈaʊ/ ]
VERB
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to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
Before God I swear I am innocent - admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about
How To Use avow In A Sentence
- So, while not disavowing the memo should your Democratic staff on the select committee be taking that as a straightforward admonition?
- 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. Pressure Mounts on BOJ to Weaken Yen After U.S. Criticism of Intervention
- History as necromancy is avowed in the Preface to Life of Notes on 'Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality'
- The Law of Replevins. difclaimer to any avowry on the ftatutc of H. 8. — becaufe the avowry on the aft is not on any perfon certaiW, but on lands with - in the lord's fee and feigniory; and there - fore whoever takes up the defence to fuch avowry muft be only a perfon concerned The law and practice of distresses and replevin;
- A false friend is worse than an avowed enemy.
- I would suggest that this cultural fantasy is the symptom of one model for male creativity - the desire to disavow woman's essential Lack by fetishizing an ordinary object.
- Moreover the chancellor of the exchequer saw before him an inevitable addition of ten millions of pounds sterling to his budget, the only avowable reason for which was the rectification of the Canadian frontier. Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII
- “Actually, I’ve been known to be witty for a full ten minutes,” Gawain avowed with a lift of his eyebrows. DIALOGUE • by Resha Caner
- Such disavowals always remind me of Henry Kissinger's line that when a state denies it intends to take a course of action, it is signalling to others that it has the capacity to take such action if it wishes.
- He again avows his special love of democracy: ‘I have been democratically elected to public office.’