Word Meanings - AVOW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry. Blackstone. Syn. -- To acknowledge; own; confess. See Confess. (more info) upon as superior; recognize as lord, own, confess); ad + vocare to 1. To declare openly, as something believed to

Additional info about word: AVOW

To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry. Blackstone. Syn. -- To acknowledge; own; confess. See Confess. (more info) upon as superior; recognize as lord, own, confess); ad + vocare to 1. To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes. Which I to be the of Israel's God Avow, and challenge Dagon to the test. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AVOW)

• Accept
• Welcome
• hail
• admit
• recognize
• avow
• acknowledge
• take
• accede to
• receive
• assent to
• Acknowledge
• Avow
• own
• accept
• profess
• endorse
• grant
• concede
• concern
• Adopt
• Assume
• select
• affiliate
• elect
• arrogate
• choose
• appropriate
• Allow
• Concede
• apportion
• allot
• assign
• afford
• tolerate
• authorize
• remit
• confess
• permit
• suffer
• sanction
• yield
• Assert
• Asseverate
• declare
• pronounce
• depose
• maintain
• statement
• avouch
• affirm
• allege
• protest
• claim

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of AVOW)

• Forego
• waive
• disclaim
• abjure
• disavow
• abandon
• concede
• surrender
• repudiate
• Lump
• confound
• sweep

Related words: (words related to AVOW)

• ASSIGNEE
  In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. (more info) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act,
• CONFESSION
  The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution. Auricular confession . . . or the private and special confession of sins to a priest for the purpose of obtaining his absolution. Hallam. 4. A formulary
• PROFESSORY
  Of or pertaining to a professor; professorial. Bacon.
• MAINTAIN
  by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace;
• RECEIVER'S CERTIFICATE
  An acknowledgement of indebtedness made by a receiver under order of court to obtain funds for the preservation of the assets held by him, as for operating a railroad. Receivers' certificates are ordinarily a first lien on the assets, prior to that
• ELECTRO-MUSCULAR
  Pertaining the reaction of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.
• ACCEPTABLE
  Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• ADMITTER
  One who admits.
• ELECTROTYPER
  One who electrotypes.
• ELECTREPETER
  An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator.
• PROFESSORIALISM
  The character, manners, or habits of a professor.
• CONFESSER
  One who makes a confession.
• ENDORSER
  See INDORSER
• ASSENTATORY
  Flattering; obsequious. -- As*sent"a*to*ri*ly, adv.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• PERMIT
  1. To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with. What things God doth neither command nor forbid . . . he permitteth with approbation either to be done or left undone. Hooker. 2. To grant express license or liberty
• ACCEPT
  To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange. Bouvier. 6. In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; bill , to agree to pay it when due. -- To accept service , to agree that a writ or
• AVOUCHMENT
  The act of avouching; positive declaration. Milton.
• AFFIRMATIVELY
  In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• ANELECTRIC
  Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• ENSWEEP
  To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.
• SUPREMITY
  Supremacy. Fuller.