skyscraper

skyscraper


    Choose language
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "avowed" in a sentence

    avowed example sentences

    avowed


    1. Which he recognized and avowed at their every meeting


    2. Kaitlyn assisted the twins in each of their chores and after two weeks of the visit, Titania and Hipolyta were her avowed and devoted sisters


    3. The performance of this horrid office is even said to be the avowed business by which some people earn their subsistence


    4. To encourage tillage, by keeping up the price of corn, even in the most plentiful years, was the avowed end of the institution


    5. It was the avowed principle of this bank to advance upon any reasonable security, the whole capital which was to be employed in those improvements of which the returns are the most slow and distant, such as the improvements of land


    6. A rotation of this kind seems alone a sufficient security against any practices which cannot be avowed


    7. To do so was the avowed purpose of the institution


    8. But the Dutch government soon began to oppress the Portuguese colonists, who, instead of amusing themselves with complaints, took arms against their new masters, and by their own valour and resolution, with the connivance, indeed, but without any avowed assistance from the mother country, drove them out of Brazil


    9. To augment our share of the colony trade beyond what it otherwise would be, is the avowed purpose of the monopoly


    10. They will employ the whole authority of government, and pervert the administration of Justice, in order to harass and ruin those who interfere with them in any branch of commerce, which by means of agents, either concealed, or at least not publicly avowed, they may choose to carry on

    11. To depress the price of this commodity below what may be called its natural and proper price, was the avowed purpose of those regulations ; and there seems to be no doubt of their having produced the effect that was expected from them


    12. fruquently, too, by cultivating all those arts which best deserve, and which are therefore most likely to gain them, the esteem of people of rank and fortune; by their knowledge in all the different branches of useful and ornamental learning, by the decent liberality of their manners, by the social good humour of their conversation, and by their avowed contempt of those absurd and hypocritical austerities which fanatics inculcate and pretend to practise, in order to draw upon themselves the veneration, and upon the greater part of men of rank and fortune, who avow that they do not practise them, the abhorrence of the common people


    13. When it becomes necessary for a state to declare itself bankrupt, in the same manner as when it becomes necessary for an individual to do so, a fair, open, and avowed bankruptcy, is always the measure which is both least dishonourable to the debtor, and least hurtful to the creditor


    14. An augmentation, or a direct raising of the denomination of the coin, always is, and from its nature must be, an open and avowed operation


    15. Among its many reforms included an oath of celibacy taken by avowed homosexuals


    16. “That’s not true,” I avowed firmly


    17. He was also an avowed atheist


    18. In his reply, Roger indicated that those “thinkers” would be more credible in their opposition to war had they expressed equal aversion to Communist avowed expansionist aims as well as for “Yankee Imperialism” and Marines’ recruitment


    19. 3 million students receive their education free…” Roger had not yet finished pointing out that “students in Cuba are forced to work up to five months of the year…”, when the president of the host club interrupted him and announced to the audience that Roger was “an avowed supporter of Franco”


    20. Chaffee, who is an avowed socialist in Republican clothing was in a cliff-hanging reelection bid for the Senate and appeared to be losing to a conservative Republican

    21. Nonetheless, in order to gain wider support, they avowed publicly “to reject any association with communists or sympathizers with communists


    22. 2 Jesus comprehended that he faced the immediate declaration of avowed and open warfare by his increasing enemies, and he elected boldly to assume the offensive


    23. Even avowed pacifists like Amelia Earhart will practice with one, since it is a non-lethal weapon


    24. In addition, your state may have an avowed policy of attempting to promote “traditional family” relationships and use its power to craft intestacy laws to give assets to family members that the state deems more worthy


    25. He had already avowed to take the beach road with the moon high and the tide low and he needed only a minute, maybe two, to be in then out of his home and on his way


    26. Having spoken to her before at length, Ingrid also knew that she was an avowed feminist, atheist and non-conformist with very liberal ideas and a strong character


    27. “You are not under contract from the Notre-Dame Society?” Asked Pierre Boucher, referring to the society that was sponsoring the settling of Ville-Marie with the avowed goal of evangelizing the Amerindians living in that area


    28. I am thankful for the avowed expression of a desire to call in the help of the laity, and make use of their opinion on Church matters


    29. And when you tell them that there is an avowed determination among many clergymen to unprotestantize the Established Church, to get behind the Reformation, and to bring back the Romish Mass and the Confessional, you are too often smiled at as an alarmist, and are not believed


    30. As Krishn has avowed, he will be the destroyer of all mankind

    31. the Supreme Spirit with an avowed resolve


    32. on the third index finger over from the thumb was a sign you were avowed to another, and therefore


    33. of the Jewish and Christian Scriptures, the stock answer of the avowed Christians was always of


    34. 'That was my avowed intention


    35. He avowed to all the heavens above,


    36. Nor can the avowed stance of Amelia Tse, this paper’s own political correspondent and intimate confidante of Wong


    37. This is a complete hypocrisy of their publicly avowed policies of non-intervention in other Nations affairs


    38. It was never openly avowed


    39. ties, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to


    40. For instance: Hitler’s avowed anti-Semitism… He wanted to deport all the Jews out of Europe: in fact the French govt agreed on a plan to deport 4 million of them to the island of madagascar

    41. Thousands, and as many as one million similar sympathizers, all American citizens of the Jewish faith, intend to descend on the nation’s capital for the avowed purpose of compelling the United States government and its President to take actions in support of the State of Israel that the President has already determined are not in the best interests of the United States


    42. It is certain that the English public greatly errs if it attributes the fewness of avowed conversions to the lack of ability, zeal, or holy character in the general body of modern missionaries


    43. But his avowed intention to imprison us forever on his ship justified our every effort


    44. Albert let himself be pressed just as long as friendship required, and then avowed to Franz that he would do him a great favor by allowing him to occupy the carriage alone the next day


    45. deviated from the principles he has so boldly avowed


    46. He himself, on the other hand, with characteristic humility, avowed his belief, that, if Providence should see fit to remove him, it would be because of his own unworthiness to perform its humblest mission here on earth


    47. But Arthur Dimmesdale! Were such a man once more to fall, what plea could be urged in extenuation of his crime? None; unless it avail him somewhat, that he was broken down by long and exquisite suffering; that his mind was darkened and confused by the very remorse which harrowed it; that, between fleeing as an avowed criminal, and remaining as a hypocrite, conscience might find it hard to strike the balance; that it was human to avoid the peril of death and infamy, and the inscrutable machinations of an enemy; that, finally, to this poor pilgrim, on his dreary and desert path, faint, sick, miserable, there appeared a glimpse of human affection and sympathy, a new life, and a true one, in exchange for the heavy doom which he was now expiating


    48. The door was very strong, the lock excellent; the carpenter avowed he would have great trouble and have to do much damage, if force were to be used; and the locksmith was near despair


    49. Why should he mind saying anything of that sort to her now? She knew that he had avowed his love for her


    50. But the objection to the present practice is that it fails to produce the stable dividend rate which is its avowed purpose and the justification for the sacrifice it imposes









































    Show more examples

    Synonyms for "avowed"

    avowed professed artless frank direct ingenuous outright undisguised

    "avowed" definitions

    openly declared as such