avow
verb (used with object)
had avowed
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past perfectof avow.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Eight states-had adopted anti-discrimination laws written to its pattern; both major parties in their 1948 platforms had avowed their devotion to legislation against discrimination because of race or religion.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had avowed his disbelief in the teachings of the Pétrachevsky group, and only frequented their meetings because "advanced" European literature was read aloud.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker
He knew—her own mother had avowed it to him—that Bettina was ambitious; but he knew, what the same source had also revealed, that she had a good and loving heart.
From A Manifest Destiny by Julia Magruder
Moreover, Adams was considerably alarmed at the reactionary principles which the Russian ministry had avowed in a communication addressed to the minister at Washington.
From Union and Democracy by Allen Johnson
"My deliverer!" murmured Eleanor; when all at once the recollection that he had avowed himself a Rookwood, and the elder brother of Ranulph, flashed across her memory.
From Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth
