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AVOWED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Openly declared as such
Example:
McKinley was assassinated by a professed anarchist
Synonyms:
avowed; professed
Classified under:
Similar:
declared (made known or openly avowed)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb avow
Context examples:
My avowed one, or what I avowed to myself, was to see whether your sister were still partial to Bingley, and if she were, to make the confession to him which I have since made.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It is to be observed, that these ambassadors spoke to me, by an interpreter, the languages of both empires differing as much from each other as any two in Europe, and each nation priding itself upon the antiquity, beauty, and energy of their own tongue, with an avowed contempt for that of their neighbour; yet our emperor, standing upon the advantage he had got by the seizure of their fleet, obliged them to deliver their credentials, and make their speech, in the Lilliputian tongue.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
