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Vows vs Avows - What's the difference?

vows | avows |

As verbs the difference between vows and avows

is that vows is third-person singular of vow while avows is third-person singular of avow.

As a noun vows

is plural of lang=en.

vows

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (vow)

    • avows

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (avow)

    • avow

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.
  • To bind or devote by a vow.
    • (Wyclif)
  • (legal) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See avowry.
    • (Blackstone)

    Antonyms

    * disavow

    Related terms

    * advocate * avowable * avowably * avowal * avowance * avowed * avowedly * avower

    Noun

  • (obsolete) avowal
    • (Dryden)

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