avowable


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a·vow

 (ə-vou′)
tr.v. a·vowed, a·vow·ing, a·vows
1. To acknowledge or declare openly and unashamedly: avowed their faith in the electoral process.
2. To state positively; declare: "Various church councils have avowed that evolution poses no threat to supernatural belief" (Frederick C. Crews).
[Middle English avowen, from Old French avouer, from Latin advocāre, to call upon; see advocate.]
a·vow′a·ble adj.
a·vow′a·bly adv.
a·vow′ed·ly (-ĭd-lē) adv.
a·vow′er n.
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The next proceedings were of a public and avowable nature, and strictly followed the customary precedents on such occasions.
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I have never grudged you money within reason, for any avowable purpose; you had just to come to me and speak.
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Far from the comforting happy ending of much popular fiction, The Bell Jar communicates a discouraging fact about our world--that there is no avowable or operative community.
La comunidad inoperativa en The Bell Jar: compartiendo el mito interrumpido
(242) In the process, Congress would presumably be required to give more careful consideration to the avowable interests of deportable aliens as well as the relevant constitutional norms.
Statutory interpretation as contestatory democracy
It could also be due to integrated use of both these amendments that have avowable effects on soil chemical properties by forming soluble complexes with Zn which ultimately increased the nutrient availability to plants resulting higher dry biomass.
Zinc-enriched Farm Yard Manure Improves Grain Yield and Grain Zinc Concentration in Rice Grown on a Saline-sodic Soil

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