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Definition of Avowable
1. a. Capable of being avowed, or openly acknowledged, with confidence.
Definition of Avowable
1. Adjective. Capable of being avowed or openly acknowledged with confidence. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Avowable
1. avow [adj] - See also: avow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Avowable
Literary usage of Avowable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Publications of the Selden Society by Selden Society (1895)
"Private imprisonment is sometimes lawful and avowable, and sometimes tortious.
It is lawful and avowable in the case of a man ..."
2. The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life by John Donne (1839)
"Corner divinity, clandestine divinity are incompatible terms; if it be divinity,
it is avowable. The heathens served their gods in temples, sub dio, ..."
3. The Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Thorstein Veblen (1918)
"... or the efforts that go to their cultivation, conduce in any appreciable degree
to any ostensible purpose avowed, or avowable, by any university. ..."
4. Meliora (1859)
"in this way to ' Here Therese interrupts him: ' The evident Let it be duly
registered : here we have the avowable part of the whole. ..."
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