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Meanings of avow in English

Portuguese
jurar
Catalan
afirmar
Spanish
afirmar

To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.

      jurar
      Portuguese
      confessar
      Spanish
      reconocer

      Admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about.

          confessar

          To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.

                Usage of avow in English
                1
                In Yemen they publicly avow their doctrines; at Mekka they conceal them.
                Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories...
                2
                I, Kadaspala, now avow this: world, I am at war with you.
                Forge of Darkness
                3
                Which are the denominations of religionists which avow their belief of it:
                The Life of Hugo Grotius / With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Eccl...
                4
                We are great on the subject of pockets-weacknowledge it-weavow it.
                Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 18, 1841
                5
                It resembled freedom to think there was: to avow it promised freedom.
                The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
                6
                The next reasons that swayed him were those he could not avow.
                Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 08
                7
                And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days.
                Liberalism and the Social Problem
                8
                Yet I must avow that amid my pains I felt much consolation.
                The French in the Heart of America
                9
                Nevertheless I avow to you that they fretted because of her coquetry.
                A Chair on the Boulevard
                10
                Orthodoxy has an answer to everything and will never avow itself worsted.
                Recollections of My Youth
                11
                And I avow it, I like to travel with my private chaplain.'
                The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 4
                12
                You love M. Isidore far more than you think, or will avow.
                Villette
                13
                Now was their time to speak, to avow their mission to Monte-Cristo.
                Monte-Cristo's Daughter
                14
                Almost all our desires, when examined, contain what we dare not avow.
                The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
                15
                I avow myself to be Odysseus, Laertes' son, and no other man.
                The World's Desire
                16
                I to mean such nonsense- Itoavow a preference for any man!
                Wife in Name Only
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                Translations for avow
                Portuguese
                jurarconfessar
                Avow through the time
                Avow across language varieties
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