avowal

NOUN
  1. a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something
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How To Use avowal In A Sentence

  • His disavowal notwithstanding, he sounded more concerned about the rights of polygamists than about the plight of child brides.
  • Early in his career he had made the mistake, at the outset of his acquaintance with a lady, of telling her that he loved her and exacting the same avowal in return.
  • As the only moral criterion which we recognize is that of social utility, the public disavowal of one's conviction in order to remain in the Party's ranks is obviously more honourable than the quixotism of carrying on a hopeless struggle. Autumn
  • But neither the anti-phenomenalistic spirit of his neutral monism, nor his explicit disavowals of phenomenalism have managed to take the wind out of the sails of the phenomenalism suspicion. Neutral Monism
  • The novelty of the avowal rendered what it carried with it inapprehensible by him in its entirety. The Woodlanders
  • Now as in the past, the claim of reportage has always stood as a disavowal of responsibility for the pictures' contents.
  • 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. In China, Even the Premier Is Censored
  • Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.". Sigmund Freud 
  • Apart from the fact of her disappearance is what I can only read as her final "disavowal" of the "Feminist" label. Why I Will Not Disavow the "Feminist" Label
  • However, this advertisement, no matter how well-worded, could not completely dispel my doubts about the credibility of the would-be husband's avowals.
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