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Example sentences for "avowedly"

Lexicographically close words:
avow; avowal; avowals; avowe; avowed; avowing; avows; avoyd; avoyde; avoyding
  1. Defiant of ostensible literary and other conventions, I avowedly chant 'the great pride of man in himself,' and permit it to be more or less a motif of nearly all my verse.

  2. The reflections on poetry are avowedly founded on Aristotle, but with much that is new, and with examples from modern poets to confirm and illustrate it.

  3. Davenant had, by a sort of connivance, opened a small house for the representation of plays, though not avowedly so called, near the Charter House in 1656.

  4. By the end of 1914 all avowedly Sinn Fein papers had been suppressed, and the two American papers, the Gaelic American and the Irish World, had been prohibited in Ireland.

  5. The Fenian Movement, as it was called, was both in Ireland and America avowedly republican and separatist from the very first.

  6. The existence of this Adeliza may be held to be against my affiliation of 'Adelidis de Tunbridge', which avowedly is only a conjecture.

  7. As the writer's line of argument is avowedly that of Dr Stubbs, it is only necessary to consider the point of difference between them.

  8. Regarding the Constitution, as framed by the Convention, as the only avenue to escape from anarchy, he finally promoted its passage there and its ratification by the States and people, avowedly as a temporary bond of union.

  9. Sidenote: Among the Warramunga these dramatic ceremonies are avowedly performed as magical rites.

  10. And at the head of all is the mind of one man who acts avowedly upon the principle that everything, which can be done safely by the supreme power of a State, may be done (See Appendix F.

  11. That was a noble advance; but a retrograde movement will assuredly be made, if ever the principle, which has been here defended, should be either avowedly abandoned or but ostensibly retained.

  12. Though this is not a theory avowedly entertained by many--though it is not formulated by any in this distinct way; yet not a few do accept it under a disguised form.

  13. If the life is one that necessitates habitual denial of pleasures and bearing of pains, there grows up an answering ethical system under which the receipt of pleasures is tacitly disapproved and the bearing of pains avowedly approved.

  14. Avowedly so, in what men have always recognized to be the noblest poetry, the psalms and parables and other writings that "do imitate the inconceivable excellences of God".

  15. She would spare him all incitement to exertion by thus withdrawing for a time his favourite occupation, would exact a proof of his trust in thus confiding his personal safety and his kingdom to those who were avowedly at her own disposal.

  16. The Russian Revolution, like the French Revolution, was avowedly of democratic origin, but in fact both were as despotic as anything the world has ever seen.

  17. Not only in writers avowedly immoral, but in the most magnificent works of a genius as lofty and pure as Plato, there are pages that would stun with horror the most hardened profligate in Christendom.

  18. The secular life is quite avowedly a life without hope.

  19. The Morane-Saulnier is the French mosquito craft of the air and like the insect, it is avowedly aggressive.

  20. The novelist was without any theory: he avowedly depended upon the brilliance of his imagination.

  21. But their arrival was of too recent a date, their many utilities too unexplored to provide anything other than theories, many obviously untenable, others avowedly problematical.

  22. A large proportion of the population of the State was either avowedly loyal to the Crown or secretly indisposed to the cause of independence.

  23. On the other hand, it was maintained with equal spirit that the nomination of Granger, avowedly to secure the anti-masonic vote, would offend the National Republicans and jeopardise the state as well as the electoral ticket.

  24. Pantheists might reply, when called upon to worship the wooden images in which avowedly no pulse of the Infinite and Absolute ever beats or ever can beat.

  25. But it is to be remembered that what is offered us is avowedly rather an enquiry than an exposition of hard and fast doctrine.

  26. Turning from criticism of others he states his own positive view of Happiness, and, though he avowedly states it merely in outline his account is pregnant with significance.

  27. He was the author of a Greek commentary on the Apocalypse, avowedly based upon that of Andrew, his predecessor in the archbishopric.

  28. Of course, it does not follow that this power is openly and avowedly exercised.

  29. In them the scene of action was not only transferred to European soil, but a direct attempt was avowedly made to apply American principles to European facts.

  30. Other rites, undertaken avowedly for the behoof of the soul, prove and illustrate a simple but unshaken faith in its continued existence after the decay of the body.

  31. And this vile outrage upon constitutional liberty was avowedly perpetrated "to repress agitation, to allay excitement, and re-establish harmony and tranquillity among the various sections of the Union!


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