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Definition of Avowers
1. avower [n] - See also: avower
Lexicographical Neighbors of Avowers
Literary usage of Avowers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar, to the Revolution by David Hume (1810)
"... but by acts of atrocious outrage ; that it was very natural for ministers to
be incensed against the avowers of such doctrines, and the perpetrators of ..."
2. The Bookman (1907)
"... Around the mansion in the'merry Spring, Or through the garden's beauty, hovering
About the feet of statues, their avowers, Or eyed the doming branches, ..."
3. The Works of John Owen by John Owen (1826)
"... so that the making of the use of one tongue necessary in the service of the
church is perfectly schismatical, and renders the avowers of that principle, ..."
4. Institutes of Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern: In Four Books by Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1841)
"Among the friends and avowers of Quietistic sentiments, the following persons
especially have been often mentioned, namely, Peter Matthew ..."
5. Charles Bradlaugh: A Record of His Life and Work by Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner, John Mackinnon Robertson (1895)
"To do the former would be to abandon the very avowal of the principle, since it
always brings odium and injury on the avowers. The very persistence of an ..."
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