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Another word for avow

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avow

v.

declare, assert, profess, admit; see declare 1. See syn. study at admit.

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Another word for avow

verb

To recognize, often reluctantly, the reality or truth of:
acknowledge, admit, concede, confess, grant, own (up). (Slang) fess up. (Chiefly Regional) allow. See affirm, knowledge
To put into words positively and with conviction:
affirm, allege, argue, assert, asseverate, aver, avouch, claim, contend, declare, hold, maintain, say, state. Idiom: have it. See affirm

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(10) They avow that love towards Him and the performances of the works which He loves, constitute His worship. (11) They recognize the necessity of public worship, but do not believe that communion with the Father depends upon meeting in any fixed place at any fixed time.
Yet he would not avow himself a follower of Bacon or indeed of any other teacher: on several occasions he mentions that in order to keep his judgment as unprepossessed as' might be with any of the modern theories of philosophy, till he was "provided of experiments" to help him judge of them, he refrained from any study of the Atomical and the Cartesian systems, and even of the Novum Organum itself, though he admits to "transiently consulting" them about a few particulars.
Nay, pity me, 0 king, for I avow myself thy suppliant.'
Replying, Mr Adams admitted it, closing with the outspoken sentiment: " I must avow to your Majesty that I have no attachment but to my own country " - a phrase which must have jarred upon the monarch's sensibilities.
From the real or fancied rapprochements between Cartesianism and Jansenism, it became for a while impolitic, if not dangerous, to avow too loudly a preference for Cartesian theories.

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