avowal
noun
an open statement of affirmation; frank acknowledgment or admission.
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A reavowal of the fundamental belief that our system was worthy of the support, and our Government of the confidence, of all loyal men.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 by Various