avowance

English

Etymology

avow +‎ -ance

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /əˈvaʊəns/

Noun

avowance (usually uncountable, plural avowances)

  1. (obsolete) The act of avowing; avowal.
  2. (obsolete) An upholding; defence; vindication.
    • 1648, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge since the Conquest:
      Can my avowance of king-murdering be collected from anything here written by me?

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “avowance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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