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avowance ? Obs.|əˈvaʊəns| [a. OF. avouance, f. avouer: see avow v.1 and -ance.] 1. The action of the avowant; the maintaining or making good of a claim or statement.
1642Sir E. Dering Sp. on Relig. 19 If now you want any of them here, to make avowance of their Petition. 1662Fuller Worthies i. 142 In avowance of the latter it sheweth more Burrow-towns then any Shire..in Mercia. 2. The action of acknowledging; public acknowledgement or confession.
a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N. T. 134 An open avowance and profession of the doctrine of Antichrist. |