Get to know Avow better with 9 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like affirm or acknowledge.
Avow meaning
- To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly.
- To bind or devote by a vow.
- To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See avowry.
Using Avow
- The main meaning on this page is: To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly. | To bind or devote by a vow. | To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See avowry.
- Useful related words include: affirm, acknowledge, admit, avouch.
- In the example corpus, avow often appears in combinations such as: to avow.
Context around Avow
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 6 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Avow
- In this selection, "avow" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, contact, openly, may, chair, proximity and explicitly stand out and add context to how "avow" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and out avow their sympathy and avow chair peter. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "avow" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with avow
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
AVOW Chair Peter Howell and Mayor Andy Williams present awards at Volunteer Week Celebration. (14 words)
In addition, the council is encouraging residents or businesses wanting to help to contact AVOW. (15 words)
Yet he would not avow himself a follower of Bacon, or indeed of any other teacher. (16 words)
Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences. (42 words)
Mr. Utum made this known while speaking as a guest on Hit 95.9 FM regular Sunday program “The Dialogue With Agba Jalingo” where he avow that it is the responsibility of the State to conduct Local Government elections. (39 words)
She found that he did evolve greatly, and appreciated his films proportionately; she also saw fit to avow, “After a certain age, true love is well-being for two. (29 words)
Example sentences (9)
AVOW Chair Peter Howell and Mayor Andy Williams present awards at Volunteer Week Celebration.
In addition, the council is encouraging residents or businesses wanting to help to contact AVOW.
She found that he did evolve greatly, and appreciated his films proportionately; she also saw fit to avow, “After a certain age, true love is well-being for two.
Governments cannot openly avow this, because that would amount to admitting that herd immunity is the objective.
Mr. Utum made this known while speaking as a guest on Hit 95.9 FM regular Sunday program “The Dialogue With Agba Jalingo” where he avow that it is the responsibility of the State to conduct Local Government elections.
In his writings, Paul used the persecutions he endured to avow proximity and union with Jesus and as a validation of his teaching.
Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.
Thus, having been "Mirandized", a suspect may avow explicitly the invocation of these rights, or, alternatively, simply remain silent.
Yet he would not avow himself a follower of Bacon, or indeed of any other teacher.
Common combinations with avow
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to avow 2×