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発音

• IPA^(key): /əˈvaʊ/
  • 韻: -aʊ

動詞

avow (三人称単数 現在形 avows, 現在分詞 avowing, 過去形および過去分詞形 avowed)

1. (transitive) To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly.
   • 1858, Henry Stephens Randall, The Life of Thomas Jefferson, volume 1, page 461:

     […] in 1786, and for some period later, there were few, if any, prominent Americans, who avowed themselves in favor of broadly democratic systems.

2. (transitive) To bind or devote by a vow.

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3. (law) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See avowry.
   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, OCLC 65350522:

     avow himself the accomplice of his crimes

反意語

• disavow

関連する語

名詞

avow

1. (obsolete) avowal
   • 1697, Virgil, “The Twelfth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:

     without thy Knowledge and Avow

Further reading

• avow in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• avow in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• avow at OneLook Dictionary Search