Modifies a noun

• atheist: It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist.

• intention: We had an alcoholic among us, Len Aitken, whose avowed intention was to drink himself to death.

• intent: There's no discouragement Shall make him once relent His first avowed intent, To be a pilgrim.

• enemy: An avowed enemy of the independent media, this man was to preside over its destruction.

• aim: In three years, immigration has fallen by half, despite Sharon's avowed aim to attract a million immigrants in the next decade.

• supporter: Even Huxley, an avowed supporter, proved a formidable critic.