? Obs. [a. OF. avouance, f. avouer: see AVOW v.1 and -ANCE.]
1. The action of the avowant; the maintaining or making good of a claim or statement.
1642. Sir E. Dering, Sp. on Relig., 19. If now you want any of them here, to make avowance of their Petition.
1662. Fuller, Worthies, I. 142. In avowance of the latter it sheweth more Burrow-towns then any Shire … in Mercia.
2. The action of acknowledging; public acknowledgement or confession.
a. 1603. T. Cartwright, Confut. Rhem. N. T. 134. An open avowance and profession of the doctrine of Antichrist.
