(v. t.) To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes.
(v. t.) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry.
(n.) Avowal.
(n.) To bind, or to devote, by a vow.
(n.) A vow or determination.
Example Sentences:
(1) How can she be so self-avowedly hip (Revolver, reefer) and yet so naive (swinging)?
(2) Discontent with the monarchy is no longer confined to avowedly republican parties or rightwingers, who have never forgiven the king for introducing democracy and transforming the state handed to him by dictator General Francisco Franco on his death in 1975, when Spain's historically fragile monarchy was restored for the second time in a century.
(3) The avowedly antisemitic National Socialists of the NRM are the extreme wing of this spectrum, Poohl says.
(4) For an avowed elitist, he had a remarkable ability to talk to a crowd.
(5) That, and the strong possibility that Obama was not referring to just those 1.5 million, but to some larger percentage of the 51% of Americans who disapprove of the job he's doing – a group that, statistically speaking, can't just consist of avowed racists.
(6) Snyder mentions Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán , who avowedly seeks the creation of an “illiberal” state, and who, says Snyder, “looks fondly on that period as one of healthy national consciousness”.
(7) But the rise of Ukip looks to me to be legitimising a very different view, in which the average English person will be characterised as an avowed Eurosceptic, a fierce opponent of immigration, a hang-'em-and-flog-'em merchant, and a hater of government.
(8) In September the telegenic Tsipras, an avowed atheist, made a trip to Rome to hold talks with Pope Francis.
(9) They are avowedly non-violent in their approach, but do not shy away from supporting specific “mujahedeen” groups in current conflicts, though this support has rarely been found to go beyond the rhetorical and is confined to wars within the Muslim world.
(10) In November 1962, six years after she left the Communist party, an MI5 officer wrote, in a file stamped “secret and personal”: “She is known to have retained extreme leftwing views and she takes an interest in African affairs as an avowed opponent of racial discrimination.
(11) In another video Shekau made an avowal that "we will continue to carry out such school attacks till our last breath".
(12) For his father, an avowed “leftist liberal”, Romanos is typical of a younger generation who, although middle-class and privileged, have been radicalised by growing up in a nation whose political establishment is blamed for the devastation wrought by its brush with bankruptcy.
(13) What DfE ministers and civil servants will make of this ideological clash is anyone’s guess but, since the avowed aim of the free school programme is to let a thousand flowers bloom, it would be surprising if Livingstone’s Hammersmith proposal failed.
(14) But they also mentioned the possibility of him cracking down on immigration, despite the mayor of London being avowedly pro-immigration .
(15) The Russian targets so far include a small number of avowedly secular fighters who have received limited backing from the United States and the Gulf states.
(16) I have remained a party member and avowedly a Trotskyist.
(17) Like Mandela, he was a black revolutionary, a prisoner turned president who avowed racial reconciliation and became a darling of the west.
(18) Factor analyses of the children's responses yielded three interpretable factors: a tendency to despise the victims of bullies; general admiration for school bullies; and avowed support for intervention to assist the victim.
(19) Sexual function after prostatectomy, particularly perirenal, has been reviewed in 128 patients treated in private practice for the past twenty years by one urologist with an avowed bias to encouraging postoperative sexual function.
(20) That may not be all that surprising given the march of Europhobia through the Tory party, but it is nevertheless striking that so many Conservatives preferred an avowed enemy of their party who describes the prime minister as a conman over their current coalition partner.
Proclaim
Definition:
(v. t.) To make known by public announcement; to give wide publicity to; to publish abroad; to promulgate; to declare; as, to proclaim war or peace.
(v. t.) To outlaw by public proclamation.
Example Sentences:
(1) With respect to Sir Jimmy, those who proclaim the age of the train rarely get it right.
(2) President Obama on Thursday proclaimed to be against endless wars, even as he announced that the US will continue to wage one.
(3) The soiree's proclaimed objective is to build a "caucus of common sense" with Senate Republicans.
(4) The site's manifesto proclaims that "the goal … is to break down the wall of omertà and silence that protects the mafia … We call on all citizens: 'if you know something, say something'".
(5) Everywhere I go the people proclaim me the president of Congo."
(6) Cocaine was considered incapable of producing dependence in 1980 but was recently proclaimed the drug of greatest national health concern.
(7) When it was first licensed for the European food market six years ago, baobab was – with a certain inevitability –proclaimed a superfood to rival quinoa, blueberries and kale.
(8) We need to show the reality we are living in.” The protesters carried banners, proclaiming: “Obama’s trip to Cuba isn’t for fun.
(9) He was a self-proclaimed cleric, though he had no formal qualifications or any evidence to support his claims.
(10) Like Demirtaş, Erdoğan proclaimed his desire to allow greater freedom and self-expression not just for his own constituency, but for all neglected citizens of the republic – including the Kurds, who in the mid-2000s voted for him in large numbers.
(11) Rebels had previously claimed they lacked weapons to strike at that range, but a spokesman for the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic told AFP its fighters had shot down the two aircraft.
(12) Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic in 1949 from the rostrum – shortly before ordering the expansion of the square.
(13) Republican convention live: roll call vote to officially nominate Trump begins Read more Crossing the threshold of 1,237 votes, Trump officially became the Republican party’s nominee for president, as the stage in Cleveland was illuminated with a message proclaiming: “Over the Top”.
(14) There is, scientists proclaim, a crisis in biomedical research.
(15) Others are taking the rally at face value and planning to turn up with banners proclaiming themselves part of the reasonable majority, liberal or conservative, against the particular brand of insanity that has swept America since Barack Obama entered the White House.
(16) But, as the church itself proclaims, redemption is always possible for a sinner.
(17) His supporters sport T-shirts proclaiming "100% Zulu Boy".
(18) Instead they said their role was to prevent weapons reaching the self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic".
(19) Sometimes these slogans proclaim the wearer's enjoyment of football ("Keep calm and play football!")
(20) August 1995 After poorly contested elections, the EPRDF swept to power; the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia was proclaimed, and Meles became Ethiopia's first prime minister.