Associations to the word «Avowed»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

AVOWED, adjective. Openly declared as such; "an avowed enemy"; "her professed love of everything about that country"; "McKinley was assassinated by a professed anarchist".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne