Avowed

//əˈvaʊd//

"Avowed" in a Sentence (11 examples)

The senator avowed his devotion to his constituents.

Beyond the novel, we come to works whose avowed aim is information.

He avowed himself an atheist.

He avowed his beliefs.

The two bade adieu to their landlady upon Tuesday, the 4th inst., and departed to Euston Station with the avowed intention of catching the Liverpool express.

I believe that no avowed atheist has ever held public office in the United States.

During the reigns of Charles II., and James, his successor, the principal nobility held frequent meetings in a subterraneous vault beneath this house, for the purpose of ascertaining the measures necessary to be pursued for reestablishing the liberties of the kingdom, which the insidious hypocrisy of one monarch, and the more avowed despotism of the other, had completely undermined and destroyed.

Sir Isaac Newton is said to have avowed that he felt like a child picking up shells beside the great and unexplored ocean of truth.

There was considerable scepticism as to whether the line would pay, but its avowed intention was to put an end to the slave trade.

An avowed aim of the 1962 Transport Act was to concentrate the BRB's attention on running trains.

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His first avowed intent, to be a pilgrim - Who would true valour see

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