[f. AVOW v.1 + -ED.]

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  1.  Acknowledged, owned, plainly declared.

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1340.  [see AVOWRY 4].

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1556.  J. Heywood, Spider & F., lii. 35. Arms … In harolds books a vowde.

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1659.  Gentl. Call. (1696), 41. A man of such an avowed brutality.

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1793.  T. Jefferson, Writ. (1859), IV. 12. For the avowed purpose of committing hostilities on us.

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1858.  Froude, Hist. Eng., III. xvi. 362. The avowed leaders were … the bishops.

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  2.  Self-acknowledged, declared by himself.

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1651.  Hobbes, Leviath., III. xxxvi. 231. He is a Prophet avowed.

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1792.  Anecd. W. Pitt, III. xliv. 197. An avowed enemy to American independency.

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1824.  Dibdin, Libr. Comp., 224. Lord Somers was the avowed Editor.

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