#DEFINITION OF AVOWED FULL#

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. Lordships, - that is, his avowed appointment of spies and under-agents, who shall carry on the real state business, while there are public and ostensible agents who are not in the secret. The Circular Dangers of John Hagee, AIPAC and Netanyahu 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. The reclaimed faithful need only forgo the ordination of women and of (I think I should here add the word avowed) homosexuals.

#DEFINITION OF AVOWED FULL#

It was very gravely and decorously ordered, and on a sound system with an appeal, in everything, to the honour and good faith of the boys, and an avowed intention to rely on their possession of those qualities unless they proved themselves unworthy of it, which worked wonders.“Actually, I’ve been known to be witty for a full ten minutes,” Gawain avowed with a lift of his eyebrows. He had only himself to please in his choice: his fortune was his own for as to Frank, it was more than being tacitly brought up as his uncle's heir, it had become so avowed an adoption as to have him assume the name of Churchill on coming of age. Hughes, and whom she instantly joined, with a firmer determination to be acquainted, than she might have had courage to command, had she not been urged by the disappointment of the day before. Such a circumstance could only exasperate farther, and, when he ceased, the colour rose into her cheeks, and she said: In such cases as this, it is, I believe, the established mode to express a sense of obligation for the sentiments avowed, however unequally they may be returned.Īt length however she was empowered to disengage herself from her friend, by the avowed necessity of speaking to Miss Tilney, whom she most joyfully saw just entering the room with Mrs. 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. (Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In answer to which I assured his honour, that in all points out of their own trade, they were usually the most ignorant and stupid generation among us, the most despicable in common conversation, avowed enemies to all knowledge and learning, and equally disposed to pervert the general reason of mankind in every other subject of discourse as in that of their own profession. Whispers reach me of Miss Shepherd having said she wished I wouldn't stare so, and having avowed a preference for Master Jones-for Jones! a boy of no merit whatever! Morse, you are far nearer socialism than I who am its avowed enemy. (Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)īelieve me, Mr. I was surprised at the coolness with which John avowed his knowledge of the island, and I own I was half-frightened when I saw him drawing nearer to myself.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) Sir Isaac Newton is said to have avowed that he felt like a child picking up shells beside the great and unexplored ocean of truth.

Definition of avowed