avowed
IPA: ʌvˈaʊd
adjective
- openly acknowledged
- positively stated
- asserted under oath, or vow
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Examples of "avowed" in Sentences
- Obama is not an "avowed" Marxist and I'll bet next month's rent that you cannot define Marxism.
- “Actually, I’ve been known to be witty for a full ten minutes,” Gawain avowed with a lift of his eyebrows.
- Both consecrated and married life are "avowed" forms of vocation: they are constituted by specific promises.
- The reclaimed faithful need only forgo the ordination of women and of (I think I should here add the word avowed) homosexuals.
- There is a rally waiting for you – 'avowed' protectors of our Constitution and our civil liberties (yeah sure) - in front of the offices of Marco "Amex" Rubio!!!
- Lordships, -- that is, his avowed appointment of spies and under-agents, who shall carry on the real state business, while there are public and ostensible agents who are not in the secret.
- I especially like the distinction between the "avowed" state, whether in the form of marriage or consecrated life, and the charism of freedom that characterizes the state of those who are called to singlehood.
- GCHQ's cover was blown by Time Out in 1976, but it was only officially "avowed" in 1982 when Geoffrey Prime, a former linguist at GCHQ, was jailed for 38 years for passing secrets to the Russians over a 14-year period.
- It is why Israelis recently voted in right winger Binyamin Netanyahu and why he, in turn, was compelled to name avowed racist Avigdor Lieberman, founder of far-right Yisrael Beitenu (Israel Our Home party, whose electoral base are the immigrants from the former Soviet Union) as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister of Israel.
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