Avow: Definition and part of speech

Avow

  1. n. A vow or determination.
  2. v. t. To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes.
  3. v. t. To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry.
  4. n. Avowal.
  5. n. To bind, or to devote, by a vow.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.