a. [f. AVOW v.1 + -ABLE. Cf. mod.F. avouable.] Capable of being avowed: † a. To be sanctioned, or approved of (obs.). b. To be acknowledged, confessed or declared.
1602. Segar, Honor Mil. & Civ., I. xxix. 38. No souldier departing from his Ensigne without leaue can be excused, nor his absence auowable.
1624. Donne, Devotions, 209 (R.). The proceedings may bee apert, and ingenuous, and candid, and auowable.
1825. Bentham, Ration. Rew., 119. This is not an avowable reason.
