Alow vs Avow - What's the difference?
alow | avow |
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.8:
*:Sometimes aloft he layd, sometimes alow , / Now here, now there, and oft him neare he mist […].
(nautical) Towards the lower part of a vessel; towards the lower rigging or the decks.
* 1859 , (James Fenimore Cooper), The Red Rover: A Tale :
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)
To bind or devote by a vow.
(legal) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See avowry.
(obsolete) avowal
As an adverb alow
is .As a preposition alow
is (scotland) below.As a verb avow is
to declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly.As a noun avow is
(obsolete) avowal.alow
English
Adverb
(-)- I think you said something concerning the manner in which yonder ship has anchored, and of the condition they keep things alow and aloft?
See also
* aloftAnagrams
*avow
English
Verb
(en verb)- in 1786, and for some period later, there were few, if any, prominent Americans, who avowed themselves in favor of broadly democratic systems.
- (Wyclif)
- (Blackstone)
Antonyms
* disavowNoun
- (Dryden)
