Avowal Definition

Avowal Sentence Examples

• But yet there was evidence of innocence in his open avowal of admiration.

• In 1672 he made a public avowal of his conversion to Roman Catholicism.

• Agrippa, the grandson of Herod the Great, was an avowed partisan of the new emperor and had paid penalty for a premature avowal of his preference.

• The most moderate form of the censure presents him in the odious light of a trimmer; the vulgar and venomous assailant is sure that Erasmus was a Protestant at heart, but withheld the avowal that he might not forfeit the worldly advantages he enjoyed as a Catholic. When by study of his writings we come to know Erasmus intimately, there is revealed to us one of those natures to which partisanship is an impossibility.

• Here is a distinct avowal that the book entitled Science and Health was the work of Almighty God.