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avow 音標拼音: [əv'ɑʊ] vt. 聲明,承認,招認 聲明,承認,招認 avow v 1: to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; " Before God I swear I am innocent" [ synonym: { affirm}, { verify}, { assert}, { avow}, { aver}, { swan}, { swear}] 2: admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about [ synonym: { avow}, { avouch}] [ ant: { disavow}] Avow \ A* vow"\, n. [ Cf. F. aveu.] Avowal. [ Obs.] -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster]
Avow \ A* vow"\, v. t. & i. [ OF. avouer, fr. LL. votare to vow, fr. L. votun. See { Vote}, n.] To bind, or to devote, by a vow. [ Obs.] -- Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster]
Avow \ A* vow"\, n. A vow or determination. [ Archaic] [ 1913 Webster]
Avow \ A* vow"\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Avowed} (?); p. pr. & vb. n. { Avowing}.] [ F. avouver, fr. L. advocare to call to ( whence the meanings, to call upon as superior; recognize as lord, own, confess); ad vocare to call. See { Advocate}, { Avouch}.] 1. To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes. [ 1913 Webster] Which I to be the of Israel' s God Avow, and challenge Dagon to the test. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Law) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See { Avowry}. -- Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: To acknowledge; own; confess. See { Confess}. [ 1913 Webster] 86 Moby Thesaurus words for " avow": accept, acknowledge, admit, admit everything, affirm, agree provisionally, allege, allow, announce, annunciate, argue, assent grudgingly, assert, assever, asseverate, attest, aver, avouch, bear witness, certify, claim, come clean, concede, confess, contend, cop a plea, declare, defend, depone, depose, disclose, enunciate, express, express general agreement, express the belief, give evidence, go along with, grant, have, hold, insist, issue a manifesto, lay down, let on, maintain, manifesto, not oppose, open up, out with it, own, own up, plead guilty, predicate, pretend, pretext, proclaim, profess, pronounce, protest, protest too much, purport, put, put it, recognize, say, set down, speak, speak out, speak up, spill, spill it, spit it out, stand for, stand on, state, submit, swear, tell all, tell the truth, testify, vindicate, vouch, vow, warrant, witness, yieldAVOW or ADVOW, practice. Signifies to justify or maintain an act formerlydone. For example, when replevin is brought for a thing distrained, and thedistrainer justifies the taking, he is said to avow. Termes de la Ley. Thisword also signifies to bring forth anything. Formerly when a stolen thingwas found in the possession of any one" he was bound advocare, i. e. toproduce the seller from whom he alleged he had bought it, to justify thesale, and so on till they found the thief. Afterwards the word was taken tomean anything which a man admitted to be his own or done by him, and in thissense it is mentioned in Fleta, lib. 1, c. 5, par 4. Cunn., Dict. h. t.
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