avowal
1
8.2
- noun
- /əˈvaʊəl/
- Formal
:
declaración
- The Martyrdom of Pionius contains two nearly identical scenes that juxtapose an avowal of Christian identity with this scriptural motif.
Examples
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The politician's avowal of support for the new law won him many voters.
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People with normal speech capacities are not inclined to keep their beliefs to themselves; they are disposed toward their avowal or transmission, subject to certain important constraints.
Academic text (2001) -
In the first sequence, she resists with all her might an avowal of love she cannot bring herself to make.
Academic text (1998) -
The public avowals of Begin's party are no guide whatever to its actual character.
Blog text (21) -
Their resolutions are filled with avowals of their determination to meet their responsibilities.
Academic text (1995) -
Just as importantly, these celebrations featured prominent displays of ethnicity and avowals of ethnic loyalty.
Academic text (2000) -
Contradictory avowals of sympathy and practices of distancing, as I show below, were deeply intertwined in early socialism.
Academic text (2018) -
Since embracing Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, feminists have puzzled over her cryptic avowal of "a woman's sentence."
Fiction book (1993) -
But the pledges and avowals in Bogan's lyrics really do, in no vague metaphorical way, reshape before our eyes a poetic mind.
Academic text (1998) -
Her heartfelt avowal of love surprised everyone at the wedding.
Synonyms
∞
1.3
A clear report given in speech or writing, often to officials
168
4.0
A confident statement made without showing proof
150
3.7
A formal public statement made by a person or agreed by a group
117
3.8
A statement where someone says they did something after denying it
36
3.8
A positive statement that something is true or good
A formal statement that says something is true
A formal statement saying something is true instead of swearing an oath
A confident statement that has no evidence
A strong, serious statement that someone says is true
Antonyms
- Formal
2
8.1
A public statement saying you have no knowledge of or connection to something
How Open
- Formal
59
5.5
- Formal
150
3.7
- Formal
1
8.2
117
3.8
- Formal
∞
1.3
589
1.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Avowal comes from the old verb avow, which means 'to declare openly' or 'admit'. Picture someone standing up and saying the truth out loud, and you will see why an avowal is a public statement or admission.