Definition of "avowed" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of avow. (verb)
• Openly acknowledged (adjective)
• Positively stated (adjective)
• Asserted under oath, or vow (adjective)

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• "“Actually, I’ve been known to be witty for a full ten minutes,” Gawain avowed with a lift of his eyebrows."
• "The reclaimed faithful need only forgo the ordination of women and of (I think I should here add the word avowed) homosexuals."
• "It is why Israelis recently voted in right winger Binyamin Netanyahu and why he, in turn, was compelled to name avowed racist Avigdor Lieberman, founder of far-right Yisrael Beitenu (Israel Our Home party, whose electoral base are the immigrants from the former Soviet Union) as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister of Israel."