English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Avouchment
(n.)
The act of avouching; positive declaration.
Avoutrer
(n.)
See Advoutrer.
Avoutrie
(n.)
Adultery.
Avow
(n.)
A vow or determination.
Avow
(v. t.)
To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to
own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his
crimes.
Avow
(v. t.)
To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry.
Avow
(n.)
Avowal.
Avow
(n.)
To bind, or to devote, by a vow.
Avowable
(a.)
Capable of being avowed, or openly acknowledged, with
confidence.
Avowal
(n.)
An open declaration; frank acknowledgment; as, an avowal of
such principles.
Avowance
(n.)
Act of avowing; avowal.
Avowance
(n.)
Upholding; defense; vindication.
Avowant
(n.)
The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the
goods, and justifies the taking.
Avowed
(imp. & p. p.)
of Avow
Avowed
(a.)
Openly acknowledged or declared; admitted.
Avowee
(n.)
The person who has a right to present to a benefice; the
patron; an advowee. See Advowson.
Avower
(n.)
One who avows or asserts.
Avowing
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Avow
Avowry
(n.)
An advocate; a patron; a patron saint.
Avowry
(n.)
The act of the distrainer of goods, who, in an action of
replevin, avows and justifies the taking in his own right.