AVOWED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does avowed mean? 

• AVOWED (adjective)
  The adjective AVOWED has 1 sense:

1. openly declared as such

  Familiarity information: AVOWED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AVOWED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Openly declared as such

Synonyms:

avowed; professed

Context example:

McKinley was assassinated by a professed anarchist

Similar:

declared (made known or openly avowed)

 Context examples 

Sir Isaac Newton is said to have avowed that he felt like a child picking up shells beside the great and unexplored ocean of truth.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I was surprised at the coolness with which John avowed his knowledge of the island, and I own I was half-frightened when I saw him drawing nearer to myself.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Believe me, Mr. Morse, you are far nearer socialism than I who am its avowed enemy.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Whispers reach me of Miss Shepherd having said she wished I wouldn't stare so, and having avowed a preference for Master Jones—for Jones! a boy of no merit whatever!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In answer to which I assured his honour, that in all points out of their own trade, they were usually the most ignorant and stupid generation among us, the most despicable in common conversation, avowed enemies to all knowledge and learning, and equally disposed to pervert the general reason of mankind in every other subject of discourse as in that of their own profession.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The door was very strong, the lock excellent; the carpenter avowed he would have great trouble and have to do much damage, if force were to be used; and the locksmith was near despair.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Such a circumstance could only exasperate farther, and, when he ceased, the colour rose into her cheeks, and she said: In such cases as this, it is, I believe, the established mode to express a sense of obligation for the sentiments avowed, however unequally they may be returned.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

At length however she was empowered to disengage herself from her friend, by the avowed necessity of speaking to Miss Tilney, whom she most joyfully saw just entering the room with Mrs. Hughes, and whom she instantly joined, with a firmer determination to be acquainted, than she might have had courage to command, had she not been urged by the disappointment of the day before.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

He had only himself to please in his choice: his fortune was his own; for as to Frank, it was more than being tacitly brought up as his uncle's heir, it had become so avowed an adoption as to have him assume the name of Churchill on coming of age.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It was very gravely and decorously ordered, and on a sound system; with an appeal, in everything, to the honour and good faith of the boys, and an avowed intention to rely on their possession of those qualities unless they proved themselves unworthy of it, which worked wonders.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)