| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To allow, admit or concede.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To assert or affirm. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To aver or allege. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To testify, vouch or attest. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To assure, certify, ensure, insure or underwrite. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To acknowledge or recognize.[Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Present participle conjugation of the verb avow.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (avow) | 1. To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.[Wordnet]. 2. Admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about.[Wordnet]. 3. To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes.[Websters]. 4. To acknowledge and justify, as an act done.[Websters]. 5. To bind, or to devote, by a vow.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: avowing, avowed, avows, avower, avowers, avowingly and avowedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "AVOWING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Specialty Definition: AVOWING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Openly declaring; frankly acknowledging; justifying.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of avow. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: avow
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Avow or advow | Law | AVOW or ADVOW, practice. Signifies to justify or maintain an act formerly done. For example, when replevin is brought for a thing distrained, and the distrainer justifies the taking, he is said to avow. Termes de la Ley. This word also signifies to bring forth anything. Formerly when a stolen thing was found in the possession of any one" he was bound advocare, i.e. to produce the seller from whom he alleged he had bought it, to justify the sale, and so on till they found the thief. Afterwards the word was taken to mean anything which a man admitted to be his own or done by him, and in this sense it is mentioned in Fleta, lib. 1, c. 5, par 4. Cunn., Dict. h.t. (references) | |
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