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Definition of Avows
1. avow [v] - See also: avow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Avows
Literary usage of Avows
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete System of Pleading: Comprehending the Most Approved Precedents by John Wentworth, George Townesend, James Cornwall (1798)
"That T. held of defendant a prior as of his manor, the lands by fealty and rent,
and avows for rest, Ra. Ent. 555. Ftt. Int. 234, 244. ..."
2. Historical and Legal Examination of that Part of the Decision of the Supreme by Thomas Hart Benton (1859)
"... confidential letter to the member of the Alabama Legislature avows to have
been his policy since 1835, and which he avers he would then have effected, ..."
3. English Hymns: Their Authors and History by Samuel Willoughby Duffield (1886)
"The other is a spiritual plea which avows a determination not to let the angel
go until he grants a blessing. So much larger then is this Christian idea I ..."
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