Avow vs Attest - What's the difference?
avow | attest | Related terms |
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
To affirm to be correct, true, or genuine.
* Addison
* 1599 — Shakespeare, iii 1'' (Act ii in ''First Folio edition)
To certify by signature or oath
To certify in an official capacity.
To supply or be evidence of
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* 1599 — Shakespeare, Prologue'' (''First Folio edition)
To put under oath.
To call to witness; to invoke.
* Dryden
Avow is a related term of attest.
As verbs the difference between avow and attest
is that avow is to declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly while attest is to affirm to be correct, true, or genuine.As a noun avow
is (obsolete) avowal.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.
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- (Blackstone)
Antonyms
* disavowNoun
- (Dryden)
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English
Verb
(en verb)- When will the appraiser attest the date of the painting?
- facts attested by particular pagan authors
- Dishonour not your Mothers: now attest that those whom you call'd Fathers, did beget you.
- You must attest your will in order for it to be valid.
- Her fine work attested her ability.
- The supplementary bibliography (in Vol. VI) attests to the comprehensiveness of the effort.
- O pardon : since a crooked Figure may / Attest in little place a Million, / And let us, Cyphers to this great Accompt, / On your imaginarie Forces worke.
- The sacred streams which Heaven's imperial state / Attests in oaths, and fears to violate.