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Declared openly
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avowed
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ All of this is with the avowed intent of improving his company's products. ▪ But if they are no longer avowed Socialists, what are they? ▪ Resentment of this magnitude was a clear indication of the failure of the avowed ...
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1 openly acknowledged 2 positively stated 3 asserted under oath, or vow v (en-past of: avow )
Usage examples of avowed.
I was a confirmed agnostic and avowed disbeliever in all things spiritual and occult.
The atheistical works of Robert Ingersoll were not purchased by the rank and file of the Republican Party for purposes of party propaganda, but the rank and file of the Revolutionary Party spend large sums of money on publications in which their avowed leaders teach atheism as part of the Socialist program.
For if any of the commoners were to make avowry for beasts taken in the common pasture it would then follow that if the Inquest were to pass against the plaintiff, he who avowed the taking in the common pasture would have the return of the beasts and the amends, and not the lord of the pasture, and that would be improper.
The emperor Gallienus, who had long supported with impatience the censorial severity of his father and colleague, received the intelligence of his misfortunes with secret pleasure and avowed indifference.
In his mild and conciliatory inaugural address, while appealing to the seceding States to return to their allegiance, he avowed his purpose to keep the solemn oath he had taken that day, to see that the laws of the Union were faithfully executed, and to use the troops to recover the forts, navy yards, and other property belonging to the government.
He had never gone ratting about the countryside with Hickory Lee, and when this Korean woman invaded the Bali Hai with the avowed intention, some said, of sleeping with the entire contingent, she had been assured by the other wives that her husband would have nothing to do with her.
We should be obliged to know nothing about you, for ambassadors are the only avowed spies.
Arlbery she was but slightly offended, though certain she had been assuring him of all the success he could demand: her way of thinking upon the subject had been openly avowed, and she did justice to the kindness of her motives.
The reason for his conviction that Miss Mannering was not, as the innkeeper so unwaveringly avowed, a straw damsel was simple: no man so beguiling as himself could be turned down by such.
Matters were involved in greater peril at home: for besides Sextius and Licinius, the proposers of the laws, re-elected tribunes of the commons now for the eighth time, Fabius also, military tribune, father-in-law of Stolo, avowed himself the unhesitating supporter of those laws of which he had been the adviser.
In his speech, his lordship disavowed any intention to interfere violently with free-trade principles, but avowed himself still a Protectionist, declaring, that in his opinion, the importation of all articles which competed with the industry of the country ought to be taxed, and that corn ought not to be exempt.
But when Anna desired her to explore unaided the old and new streets of the Quartier Latin, she avowed that she was afraid of the undertaking.
Its avowed aim was to laud every Rationalistic book to the skies, but to reproach every evangelical publication as unworthy the support, or even the notice, of rational beings.
In relation to these predestined victims sadistic behavior was right and proper, so much so that it could be publicly avowed and rationalized in terms of current scientific theories.
The people amid whom she lived were all but avowed scorners of her belief, and yet she was beginning to like their society.