avow
verb (used with object)
avowable
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a word derived from
avow.
Example Sentences
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"In the first place," replied Ernest, "I am offended that you will persist in implying—more, it is true, by your manner than your words—that my views are not perfectly avowable."
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various
Historians have no avowable motive for proceeding differently, at any rate when it is a case of establishing a particular fact.
From Introduction to the Study of History by George Godfrey Berry
Historians have no avowable motive for proceeding otherwise.
From Introduction to the Study of History by George Godfrey Berry
Out of the tumult of her feelings, as another day went by, issued at length that one simple and avowable sense of disappointment.
From The Whirlpool by George Gissing
Still, as touching avowable speculations, we are permitted a tether.
From The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
