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Example sentences for "avowed"

Lexicographically close words:
avoue; avow; avowal; avowals; avowe; avowedly; avowing; avows; avoyd; avoyde
  1. The avowed enemies of the Church charge only five or six Popes with immorality.

  2. A distinguished Episcopal clergyman of Baltimore once avowed to me that his favorite books of devotion were our standard works of piety.

  3. I could never fathom the full extent of his speculations; but there were five separate businesses which he avowed and carried like a banner.

  4. About a week after the picnic to which he escorted Mamie, Pinkerton avowed the state of his affections.

  5. This is the only case in which they have confounded mental and physical diseases, and they do it even here as by an avowed legal fiction.

  6. During all this time both Arowhena and myself had been dreaming, and drifting towards an avowed attachment, but had not dared to face the real difficulties of the position.

  7. When a negro broke his contract, Buckley always decided in his favor, and avowed that he would sooner believe a negro than a white man.

  8. This lady avowed that his grand master of the ceremonies, De Segur, had been entrusted by her with the whole arrangement, but that she feared that he had not yet been able to complete the full establishment of the Imperial Court.

  9. He had gone down to the home of John Colt of Newhall, in Essex, with the avowed purpose of getting him a wife.

  10. Now he's what I call a real nice pleasant-spoken gentleman," avowed Miss Flora, when she thought speech was safe.

  11. Miss Adair heard the delightful confession with an emotion she could not conceal; and, ingenuous in everything, in all she said and did, avowed that she loved in return.

  12. Mr Mowbray gradually became more and more open in his communications with Miss Adair; gradually disclosed the state of his feelings with regard to her, and finally avowed his love.

  13. But I have been kept from coming forward as an 'avowed disciple,' by the contempt I cannot help feeling for some whom I know as 'avowed disciples.

  14. It may be said truthfully that these various measures, so inconsistent with the early avowed principles of the party, were inherited from the Federalists.

  15. A petition for emancipation had just been introduced into the Virginia House of Delegates and was "rejected without dissent; but not without an avowed patronage of its principles by sundry respectable members," as Madison informed Washington.

  16. This is the distinctly avowed programme of all able abolitionists and socialists: and towards this end the doctrines and the practices of the weakest and most timid among them tend.

  17. In my short trip to the North, I was struck with nothing so much as the avowed infidelity of many, and the Christianity melting into infidelity, of the great mass of the balance with whom I conversed.

  18. In prospect of obtaining these rewards, as well as to render a service to community, some six individuals banded themselves together with the avowed intention of ferreting out the matter, and immediately set out for that purpose.

  19. The avowed objects of the convention were of a totally different character.

  20. They had avowed this principle before the world, had fought for it, and successfully defended it, against the mightiest power in the world.

  21. If such a purpose had been avowed by those who were at the bottom of the movement, the convention would doubtless never have been held.

  22. Her forces were gathering and her fleets accumulating upon our coast for the avowed purpose of demolishing our seaports, burning up our shipping, destroying our cities, and carrying a wide-spread desolation along our shores.

  23. He adjured his countrymen, by every motive, to abstain from any violation of their faith: and finding his remonstrances useless, he attached himself to the Chippeway chief, and avowed his determination to save him or perish.

  24. But I carried them fearlessly and openly, with the avowed purpose of peace.

  25. And then came the realization that this man was her country's avowed enemy,--a hated Britisher!

  26. If things be not so black against ye as they surely look, take this note that ye sent my servant with just now, to be delivered to our country's avowed enemy, and read every word aloud to me.

  27. It is through the perplexities of this momentous period that we have now to follow him, and we shall do so to most advantage by taking as our clue his own avowed primary motive of action, the finding and destroying of the French fleet.

  28. We do but waste our breath," he avowed afterwards.

  29. If he could rightly remove his prizes, which he avowed as part of his demand, then still more he could his own ships.

  30. St. Vincent, writing to him a fortnight later, avowed frankly the weight attached to his very name by both friend and foe.

  31. He avowed that whoever stayed by him must do so at the cost of his life, or of being made as miserable as the violence of insulting rebels could make him.

  32. The king granted them dispensations to hold their livings, despite their avowed conversion to the doctrines of another Church, on the plea that he would not oppress their consciences.

  33. Before we proceed, however, to notice his struggles with his secret or avowed enemies, and with his new Parliament, we must notice what had been doing meanwhile in the war with Holland, which had still been raging.

  34. To this the chiefs would not consent, and when the money was not paid over, they loudly avowed their conviction that Breadalbane meant to appropriate it to himself.

  35. She encouraged them to carry on their debates without contentions, and avowed her determination to be indulgent to all her subjects.

  36. Halifax, however, was the only member who dared to warn him of the consequences, and avowed that he would be compelled to oppose the measure.

  37. So far from making him pause at the contemplation of the avowed and universal spirit of his people, he was only the more exasperated, and continued muttering, "So much the worse for them.

  38. Their great enemy the Earl of Strafford had fallen, but, on the other hand, they were menaced by Parliament with a still more fierce persecution, and even an avowed extermination of their religion.

  39. This outrage excited the deepest indignation in France, but the avowed hatred of the court toward Coligny and the Huguenots prevented public satisfaction being demanded from Philip II.

  40. The doubtful allegiance of many of her Indian neighbors was far overbalanced by the avowed hostility of others no less numerous and powerful.

  41. They were not frightened physically of this avowed and relentless enemy of their countrymen.

  42. An avowed enemy is better than a secret one, sir, and I have good reasons to suspect Stephanus Groblaar of being one before this night," replied Ned.

  43. It was these monstrous doctrines and assumptions, which were then, and are to the present day, avowed and defended by abolition orators, that alarmed the Southern people.

  44. These feelings, and the false statements and influences growing out of them, gave rise to the organization of a company of outlaws, whose avowed object was to drive the Church of the Saints from the county.

  45. The first was a bill for the repealing of all city charters in the State (for the avowed object of getting rid of Nauvoo), this bill was lost by a majority of one.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "avowed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.