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Definition of Avowed
1. Adjective. Openly declared as such. "McKinley was assassinated by a professed anarchist"
Definition of Avowed
1. a. Openly acknowledged or declared; admitted.
Definition of Avowed
1. Verb. (past of avow) ¹
2. Adjective. openly acknowledged ¹
3. Adjective. positively stated ¹
4. Adjective. asserted under oath, or vow ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Avowed
1. avow [v] - See also: avow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Avowed
Literary usage of Avowed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thirty Years' View; Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1856)
"Reviewing the whole ground, I saw nothing to change in the opinions and principles
I had avowed in 1834 ; and I determined to carry them out, ..."
2. The Measurement of Intelligence: An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for by Lewis Madison Terman (1916)
"Some avowed limitations of the Binet tests. The Binet tests have often been
criticized for their unfitness to perform certain services which in reality they ..."
3. History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America by Henry Wilson (1875)
"Speaking for the delegates chosen at Utica, Preston King deprecated the consignment
of the question to a secret committee room, and distinctly avowed that ..."
4. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"Though he was an avowed nonconformist, he lived ' in hearty love and concord with
the worthy minister of the parish' at Mansfield, who, with reference to ..."
5. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, William Caxton (1903)
"CHAPTER VII How the queen desired to see Galahad; and how after, all the knights
were replenished with the Holy Sangreal, and how they avowed the ..."
6. The History of England by David Hume, Tobias George Smollett (1825)
"... imposture—He is avowed by the dutchess of Burgundy—and by many of the English
nobility •—Trial and execution of Stanley—A parliament. ..."
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