avow
verb (used with object)
avowable
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a word derived from
avow.
Example Sentences
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The next proceedings were of a public and avowable nature, and strictly followed the customary precedents on such occasions.
From Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins
Hence the coldness, the cause of which is scarcely avowable.
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
Mr. Morton's subsequent life has proved that he had certain expensive, not altogether avowable, tastes.
From The Old Man in the Corner by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
For M. Gabriel Charmes is quite in the right when he says that 'under this word of "epuration" lie concealed the most deplorable forms of personal greed, and the least avowable personal spites and rancours.'
From France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 by William Henry Hurlbert
It seemed an open response to a secret instigation or impulse which was unconnected with any recognized or avowable principle.
From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon
