Avowed
[ə'vaʊd]
Definition
(adj.) openly declared as such; 'an avowed enemy'; 'her professed love of everything about that country'; 'McKinley was assassinated by a professed anarchist' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Avow
(a.) Openly acknowledged or declared; admitted.
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Examples
- To encourage tillage, by keeping up the price of corn, even in the most plentiful years, was the avowed end of the institution. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A rotation of this kind seems alone a sufficient security against any practices which cannot be avowed. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The interest in both is of the very same kind: It is general, avowed, and prevails in all times and places. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Nor is it a desire of such a performance: For we may bind ourselves without such a desire, or even with an aversion, declared and avowed. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Whispers reach me of Miss Shepherd having said she wished I wouldn't stare so, and having avowed a preference for Master Jones--for Jones! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- After the tissue of social falsehoods in which she had so long moved it was refreshing to step into the open daylight of an avowed expediency. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The performance of this horrid office is even said to be the avowed business by which some people earn their subsistence. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- To augment our share of the colony trade beyond what it otherwise would be, is the avowed purpose of the monopoly. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The interest in the performance of promises, besides its moral obligation, is general, avowed, and of the last consequence in life. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- To make it an avowed ideal--a thing of will and intelligence--is to hasten its coming, to illumine its blunders, and, by giving it self-criticism, to convert mistakes into wisdom. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- An augmentation, or a direct raising of the denomination of the coin, always is, and from its nature must be, an open and avowed operation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- To do so was the avowed purpose of the institution. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- She knew that he had avowed his love for her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I now set her down on a seat and told her she should not stir till she had avowed which she meant in the end to accept--the man or the monkey. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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