Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an avowed or open manner; with frank acknowledgment.
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- adverb With open
acknowledgment ,declaration orverification .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb as acknowledged
- adverb by open declaration
Etymologies
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Examples
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This outfit, better known as the avowedly terrorist Palestine Liberation Organization, suppressed state TV coverage of West Bank Arabs on 9/11.
Ken Blackwell: Hillary: Counting Jews in Jerusalem Ken Blackwell 2011
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One could wonder how an account of the logic or the consistency of concepts might be described as avowedly optimistic.
'Liberal Nationalism' Tamir, Yael 1994
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By 1976, as America elected its first avowedly born again president, 44 percent of Americans said that the influence of religion was once again rising.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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Yet avowedly originalist justices like Scalia and Thomas ignore this history and follow instead their conservative ideological opposition to affirmative action.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010
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Americans are increasingly concentrated at opposite ends of the religious spectrum—the highly religious at one pole, and the avowedly secular at the other.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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Thanks to changes in the tax law engineered when another avowedly pro-business Democrat, Bill Clinton, was president, U.S. multinational financial companies can avoid taxes on their international scams.
Robert Scheer: Obama's Fatal Addiction Robert Scheer 2011
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Thanks to changes in the tax law engineered when another avowedly pro-business Democrat, Bill Clinton, was president, U.S. multinational financial companies can avoid taxes on their international scams.
Robert Scheer: Obama's Fatal Addiction Robert Scheer 2011
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Thanks to changes in the tax law engineered when another avowedly pro-business Democrat, Bill Clinton, was president, U.S. multinational financial companies can avoid taxes on their international scams.
Robert Scheer: Obama's Fatal Addiction Robert Scheer 2011
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An avowedly progressive group, JFSJ has been taking aim at Beck for some time over his attacks on the concept of 'social justice.'
EXCLUSIVE: Holocaust historian's quote used to slam Beck without permission Jennifer Rubin 2011
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While I support how the President is doing, my avowedly socialist wife is mad that he's not doing enough.
mialuthien commented on the word avowedly
avowedly – with open acknowledgment, declaration or verification
July 14, 2008