Word Meanings - AVOWANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Act of avowing; avowal. 2. Upholding; defense; vindication. Can my avowance of king-murdering be collected from anything here written by me Fuller.

Related words: (words related to AVOWANCE)

• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• COLLECTIBLE
  Capable of being collected.
• COLLECTIVISM
  The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• FULLER
  One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed
• VINDICATION
  The claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing. Burrill. (more info) 1. The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• DEFENSER
  Defender. Foxe.
• AVOWRY
  1. An advocate; a patron; a patron saint. Let God alone be our avowry. Latimer. 2. The act of the distrainer of goods, who, in an action of replevin, avows and justifies the taking in his own right. Blackstone. Note: When an action of replevin
• AVOWANCE
  1. Act of avowing; avowal. 2. Upholding; defense; vindication. Can my avowance of king-murdering be collected from anything here written by me Fuller.
• MURDER
  The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide. "Mordre will out." Chaucer. The killing of their children had, in the account of God, the guilt of murder,
• COLLECTORATE
  The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.
• COLLECTEDNESS
  A collected state of the mind; self-possession.
• WRITTEN
  p. p. of Write, v.
• AVOW
  To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry. Blackstone. Syn. -- To acknowledge; own; confess. See Confess. (more info) upon as superior; recognize as lord, own, confess); ad + vocare to 1. To declare openly, as something believed to
• DEFENSE; DEFENCE
  The defendant's answer or plea; an opposing or denial of the truth or validity of the plaintiff's or prosecutor's case; the method of proceeding adopted by the defendant to protect himself against the plaintiff's action. 5. Act or skill in making
• COLLECTANEA
  Passages selected from various authors, usually for purposes of instruction; miscellany; anthology.
• FULLERY
  The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.
• AVOWEE
  The person who has a right to present to a benefice; the patron; an advowee. See Advowson.
• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• DISAVOWMENT
  Disavowal. Wotton.
• DISAVOWER
  One who disavows.
• SELF-MURDER
  Suicide.
• MISRECOLLECT
  To have an erroneous remembrance of; to suppose erroneously that one recollects. Hitchcock.
• MISRECOLLECTION
  Erroneous or inaccurate recollection.
• DISAVOW
  1. To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, an the like; to disclaim; to disown; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime. A solemn promise made and disavowed. Dryden.
• SELF-DEFENSE
  The act of defending one's own person, property, or reputation. In self-defense , in protection of self, -- it being permitted in law to a party on whom a grave wrong is attempted to resist the wrong, even at the peril of the life of