avowedadjective [ before noun ]
uk/əˈvaʊd/us/əˈvaʊd/formalstated:
The government's avowed intent/purpose/aim is to reduce tax.
An avowed traditionalist, he is against reform of any kind.
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Admitting & confessing
- acknowledge
- acknowledgment
- admit
- admittedly
- avow
- back down
- climb
- come clean idiom
- concessionary
- eat
- eat your words idiom
- hand
- I stand corrected idiom
- make a clean breast of it idiom
- own up
- say
- self-confessed
- swallow
- swallow your words idiom
- take sth back
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Announcing, informing & stating
avowedly
adverb uk/əˈvaʊ.ɪd.li/us/əˈvaʊ.ɪd.li/
an avowedly feminist author