avowed

[ uh-voud ]

/ əˈvaʊd /

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adjective

acknowledged; declared: an avowed enemy.

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Origin of avowed

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; see origin at avow, -ed²

OTHER WORDS FROM avowed

a·vow·ed·ly

[uh-vou-id-lee], /əˈvaʊ ɪd li/, adverba·vow·ed·ness, nounself-a·vowed, adjectiveun·a·vowed, adjective

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Avon Lake, à votre santé, avouch, avow, avowal, avowed, avowry, Avram, avruga, a vuestra salud, avulse

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An avowed creationist who consults for a food lobby hardly seems an appropriate choice to fulfill these criteria.
The Heart Association’s Junk Science Diet|Dr. Barbara H. Roberts|May 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Should an avowed Marxist professor whose field of study is the 0.01 percent therefore be paid $15,000,000 a year?
That’s All a Nobel Prize Winner Gets Paid?|Michael Tomasky|April 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And it may cease to be a worry at all if the avowed opponents of stop-and-frisk have their way.
Antiq Hennis’s Bloody Stroller Shames New York City Mayor’s Race|Michael Daly|September 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST
A dishy book from an avowed sociopath has stirred up an awkward debate: perhaps all of us have a bit of the personality disorder.
How to Spot a Sociopath (Hint: It Could Be You)|Caitlin Dickson|June 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST

Even Osama bin Laden was accorded the final rites prescribed by his avowed religion, courtesy of the U.S. government.
Will Tamerlan Tsarnaev Get a Muslim Burial?|Michael Daly|April 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Why should they not jointly come under explicitly avowed obligations to God?
The Ordinance of Covenanting|John Cunningham
Montague was taken completely by surprise, but manfully avowed the whole truth, and defended what he had done.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.|Thomas Babington Macaulay
Perhaps also greater liberty of thought and speech caused irreligion to take a more avowed and visible form.
The English Church in the Eighteenth Century|Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton
It was no light trouble to him that on their return to London she avowed herself a Romanist.
The English Church in the Eighteenth Century|Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton
I had always felt attached to this divine production, even when I had not believed myself one of its avowed followers.
My Ten Years' Imprisonment|Silvio Pellico

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