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avowry|əˈvaʊrɪ|
Forms: 4 avoerie, 4–7 auowrie, avowrie, 5–6 -rye, 5–7 auowry, advowry, 6 advoury, -uowry(e, 6–7 avourie, -ry, 5– avowry. aphet. 4–5 vory.
[a. OF. avoerie, avouerie, avourie, avorie, AF. avowerie, f. avoueur, OF. avoeor, n. of agent f. avouer (see avow v.1 and -ry); the office of the avoueur, avoué, or patron. In 15–16th c. F. frequently spelt by clerks advouerie (see Cotgrave), whence in 16th c. Eng. commonly advowry, esp. when = advowson; but in the senses retained in 18–19th c., the influence of avow v. has made avowry the current form.]
†1. The function of an avoué, advowee, advocate, or patron; patronage, protection. Obs.
1330R. Brunne Chron. 260 Saue condite vs gyue, Þorgh þi lond to go in þin auowrie.
2. Advocacy, protection or authority personified: a protector, a patron; esp. a patron saint, chosen for one's advocacy in heaven. (Rarely attrib.)
1387Trevisa Higden Rolls Ser. IV. 219 Julius Cesar þat was his [Catiline's] patroun and his vorie, and pleded for hym. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 328/4 Thankynge to al⁓myghty god and to Saynt Johan his avowry. 1528Roy Satire (1845) S. Frances their advowry. 1549Latimer 7 Serm. Edw. VI (Arb.) 193 Awaye with these auowryes. Let god alone be oure auowry. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vii. ii. (1632) 198 These Germanes that worshipped Herthum the Mother-earth for their Auowrie Goddesse. 1849Rock Ch. of Fathers II. vii. 489 Close to the corpse were carried the four banners of the dead person's ‘avowries.’
†3. Patronage or right of presentation to a benefice; advowson. Obs.
1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 204 Benefices..which were of the advowry of people of the holy Church. Ibid. 205 The Archbishopricks and other dignities elective..of his avowry.
†4. Avowal or acknowledgement as one's own.
1340Ayenb. 101 His zone be adopcioun, þet is be avoerie, zuo þet he ssel bi yhealde vor his zone avoud.
5. (From Eng. vb. avow1, in its legal sense): The answering for or avowal of an act done; esp. the plea whereby one who distrains for rent avows the act and justifies it.
1531Act 21 Hen. VIII, xix, Alleaging in the said auowrie..the same manors, lands and tenements. 1662Sir A. Mervyn Sp. Irish Aff. 37 The Law will allow an Avowry without Atturnment, where he hath no means to compel the Test to atturn. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. 234. 1876 Digby Real Prop. vii. §i. 316 note, He is said to make avowry if he justifies in his own right..and to make cognisance if he justifies in the right of another.
†6. (Due to the confusion between the two verbs avow): A vowing, swearing, solemn declaration, or oath. Obs.
1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1020/1 All which their promises and auowries they performed. 1593Bilson Govt. Christ's Ch. 204, I convent your owne consciences, which of our auowries standeth on the surest ground. |