avows

Here we have come to the central fact of the question: a fact nobody avows, which is yet the true explanation of the monstrous system of child imprisonment and torture which we disguise under such hypocrisies as education, training, formation of character and the rest of it.

Treatise on Parents and Children George Bernard Shaw 1903

So the unbelieving people of the Jews is cursed from the earth, that is, from the Church … the Church admits and avows the Jewish people to be cursed, because after killing Christ they continue to till the ground of an earthly circumcision, an earthly Sabbath, an earthly Passover.

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

We follow the two lovers (?) in an elegant French estate, and through its gardens, as the younger woman (who we know very little about) excitedly avows that her joy in life is not her children, the family left behind, but her serving of "Catherine" (who we know even less about).

Karin Badt: The Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival: From Soviet Cannibals to Jarmusch's Cleveland Karin Badt 2011

We follow the two lovers (?) in an elegant French estate, and through its gardens, as the younger woman (who we know very little about) excitedly avows that her joy in life is not her children, the family left behind, but her serving of "Catherine" (who we know even less about).

Karin Badt: The Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival: From Soviet Cannibals to Jarmusch's Cleveland Karin Badt 2011

It's mostly good-natured; still, Nicholson, who several times avows that he owes his career to Corman who hired him to act when no one else would, at one point actually breaks down in tears at how much Corman means to him.

Marshall Fine: Movie review: Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel Marshall Fine 2011

He did not exhibit this ability as governor of Massachusetts, where he failed to defend the very principles he now avows regarding such things as the family, abortion and a liberal judiciary.

Romney's Businessman Pitch Won't Work Robert R. Reilly 2012

Someone else avows that "Nothing in the world is more beautiful than a child's smile": Oprah, I predict, will forgive Frey's previous trespasses when she reads that mawkish sentence.

The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey – review 2011

So the unbelieving people of the Jews is cursed from the earth, that is, from the Church … the Church admits and avows the Jewish people to be cursed, because after killing Christ they continue to till the ground of an earthly circumcision, an earthly Sabbath, an earthly Passover.

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

A proper slice, Mr. Hagendorf avows, should crease when folded and droop only at the very tip, "just like Johnny Cash's nose."

Slice of Life: a Quest to Try Pies in the Big Apple Aaron Rutkoff 2011

He avows his intention to commit suicide, to "jump before I am pushed," and explains why.

Boing Boing 2009