avowed
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avowed
- simple past and past participle of avow
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avowed (not comparable)
- openly acknowledged
- positively stated
- 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 262:
- There was considerable scepticism as to whether the line would pay, but its avowed intention was to put an end to the slave trade.
- 1964 May, “News and Comment: Minister hamstrings BR workshops”, in Modern Railways, page 291:
- An avowed aim of the 1962 Transport Act was to concentrate the BRB's attention on running trains.
- asserted under oath, or vow
- 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress:
- His first avowed intent, to be a pilgrim - Who would true valour see
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