avow

Object

• enemy: Even avowed enemies of the Bahá'í Faith were on occasion transformed by meeting him.
• doctrine: In particular, van Ree notes that Stalin took his publicly avowed doctrines seriously.

Modifying Another Word

• publicly: Once employees have publicly avowed support for better security, some will begin to change their perception of themselves.
• not: But anarchists do not avow autocracy as the ultimate condition they seek.
• now: No amount of probing would budge them from their till now avowed stand on the incident.
• frankly: The writer, both in text and photographs, frankly avows the prejudices and selectivity inevitable in any account of controversial and divisive events.
• boldly: It's because they do not more boldly avow God.