▪ I. avowed, ppl. a.1
(əˈvaʊd)
[f. avow v.1 + -ed.]
1. Acknowledged, owned, plainly declared.
| 1340 [see avowry 4]. 1556 J. Heywood Spider & F. lii. 35 Arms..In harolds books a vowde. 1659 Gentl. Call. (1696) 41 A man of such an avowed brutality. 1793 T. Jefferson Writ. (1859) IV. 12 For the avowed purpose of committing hostilities on us. 1858 Froude Hist. Eng. III. xvi. 362 The avowed leaders were..the bishops. |
2. Self-acknowledged, declared by himself.
| 1651 Hobbes Leviath. iii. xxxvi. 231 He is a Prophet avowed. 1792 Anecd. W. Pitt III. xliv. 197 An avowed enemy to American independency. 1824 Dibdin Libr. Comp. 224 Lord Somers was the avowed Editor. |
▪ II. † aˈvowed, ppl. a.2 Obs.
[f. avow v.2 + -ed.]
Vowed.
| 1720 Welton Suff. Son of God I. x. 279 The Avowed Poverty of St. Francis..The Spiritual Repasts of this Sacred Vow. |