verb
definition
To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly.
definition
To bind or devote by a vow.
definition
To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See avowry.
Examples of avows in a Sentence
The conflict between her passionate fascination and her disgust at her father's vulgarity is finely realized both in music and drama; but, if we are able to appreciate it, then the operatic convention by which Senta avows her passion becomes crude.
In the Biographia he avows that the writings of Kant "more than any other work, at once invigorated and disciplined my understanding"; yet the gist of his estimate there is that Kant left his system undeveloped, as regards his idea of the Noumenon, for fear of orthodox persecution - a judgment hardly compatible with any assumption of Kant's Christian orthodoxy, which was notoriously inadequate.
The writer, both in text and photographs, frankly avows the prejudices and selectivity inevitable in any account of controversial and divisive events.