avowance

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English

Etymology

From avow +‎ -ance.

Pronunciation

Noun

avowance (usually uncountable, plural avowances) (obsolete)

  1. An act of avowing; an avowal.
  2. An upholding; a defence, a vindication.
    • 1659, Thomas Fuller, “An Answer to Dr. Heylyn's Necessary Introduction &c.”, in The Appeal of Iniured Innocence: Unto the Religious Learned and Ingenious Reader: In a Controversie betwixt the Animadvertor Dr. Peter Heylyn and the Author Thomas Fuller, London: W. Godbid, and are to be sold by John Williams , →OCLC, part I, page 45:
      Reader I requeſt thee do Me, thy Self, and Truth right: VVhether can my avovvance of King-murdering be collected from any thing here vvritten by me?

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “avowance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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