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▪ I. avowed, ppl. a.1|əˈvaʊd|
[f. avow v.1 + -ed.]
1. Acknowledged, owned, plainly declared.
1340[see avowry 4]. 1556J. Heywood Spider & F. lii. 35 Arms..In harolds books a vowde. 1659Gentl. Call. (1696) 41 A man of such an avowed brutality. 1793T. Jefferson Writ. (1859) IV. 12 For the avowed purpose of committing hostilities on us. 1858Froude Hist. Eng. III. xvi. 362 The avowed leaders were..the bishops.
2. Self-acknowledged, declared by himself.
1651Hobbes Leviath. iii. xxxvi. 231 He is a Prophet avowed. 1792Anecd. W. Pitt III. xliv. 197 An avowed enemy to American independency. 1824Dibdin Libr. Comp. 224 Lord Somers was the avowed Editor.
▪ II. † aˈvowed, ppl. a.2 Obs.
[f. avow v.2 + -ed.]
Vowed.
1720Welton Suff. Son of God I. x. 279 The Avowed Poverty of St. Francis..The Spiritual Repasts of this Sacred Vow. |