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Definition of Avowals
1. avowal [n] - See also: avowal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Avowals
Literary usage of Avowals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lower Canada Jurist: Collection de Décisions Du Bas Canada by Strachan Bethune, John Sprott Archibald, William Hey, John Stuart Buchan (1876)
"The plaintiff now asked to be allowed to examine Grenier again with reference to
the avowals made to him by Prévost. PER CURIAM : — I think that the ..."
2. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1858)
"... Embargo—Embargo sustained by a larger Majority than that by which it originally
passed—The Enforcing Law—President's continued avowals that Embargo was ..."
3. History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America by Henry Wilson (1877)
"... character and avowals. — Maryland conservative and Southern. — Secession
measures and menaces. — Charges of inconsistency. — Dilemma. ..."
4. Ireland: Historical and Statistical by George Lewis Smyth (1847)
"... when ministers of state make such unblushing avowals of pollution as this.
Grattan gave vent to the feeling of astonishment and indignation excited by ..."
5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1871)
"New York at the anniversary of the American Antislavery Society, and who, by
their earnest avowals of their faith ..."
6. Personal Memoirs and Recollections of Editorial Life by Joseph Tinker Buckingham (1852)
"Frequent avowals of regard for this body, and for the glorious old statesmen who
fought for the precepts of the federal school, produced controversies, ..."
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