Definition of "avowal" []

• A frank admission or acknowledgment. (noun)

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• "Thus, in one place we have the following avowal, which is only not _naïf_ because evidently put in to please the prejudices of sympathetically narrow readers."
• "'A woman less fine than you would have protested against this sudden avowal, which is only too like me -- too like Hugo."
• "I cannot recall the avowal of my earnest and deep attachment to you, and I do not recall it. '"