Vowest vs Avowest - What's the difference?
vowest | avowest |
(archaic) (vow)
A solemn promise to perform some act, or behave in a specified manner, especially a promise to live and act in accordance with the rules of a religious order.
A declaration or assertion.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=
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, title= (ambitransitive) To make a vow; to promise.
* Bible, Eccl. v. 4
* Richard Baxter
To make a vow regarding (something).
To declare publicly that one has made a vow, usually to show one's determination or to announce an act of retaliation.
(archaic) (avow)
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
In archaic terms the difference between vowest and avowest
is that vowest is archaic second-person singular of vow while avowest is archaic second-person singular of avow.vowest
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(head)vow
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(en noun)Sam Leith
Where the profound meets the profane, passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.}}
Usage notes
* One normally makes'' or ''takes'' a vow, or simply ''vows (see below). * Commonly mentioned vows include those of silence'', ''obedience'', ''poverty'', ''chastity'', and ''celibacy . * 'to keep/pay/fulfill a vow' = to honor a vow * 'to break a vow' = to dishonor a vowVerb
(en verb)- When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it.
- We do not vow that we will never sin, nor neglect a duty (nor ought we to do so).
- The wronged woman vowed revenge.
- The rebels vowed to continue their fight.
Derived terms
* exchange vows * take vows * vow of celibacy * vow of chastity * vow of silence * vow of povertyExternal links
* * *Anagrams
*avowest
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Verb
(head)avow
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(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)