a vowとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /əˈvaʊ/
• 韻: -aʊ

動詞

avow (third-person singular simple present avows, present participle avowing, simple past and past participle avowed)

1. (transitive) To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly.
   • 1858, Henry Stephens Randall, The Life of Thomas Jefferson, volume 1, page 461:

     […] in 1786, and for some period later, there were few, if any, prominent Americans, who avowed themselves in favor of broadly democratic systems.

2. (transitive) To bind or devote by a vow.

   Synonyms: consecrate, dedicate, hallow, sanctify; see also Thesaurus:consecrate

   • c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, […], volume I, Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC, Leviticus 27:26, page 362, column 2:

     No man may halewe and avowe the firste gendrid thingis that perteynen to the Lord, whether it is oxe, whether scheep, tho ben the Lordis part.

     No man may hollow and avow the firstborn that pertains to the Lord, whether it be an ox or sheep, they are the Lord's portion.

3. (law) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See avowry.
   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

     avow himself the accomplice of his crimes

反意語

• disavow

関連する語

名詞

avow

1. (obsolete) avowal
   • 1697, Virgil, “The Twelfth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     without thy Knowledge and Avow

Further reading

• “avow”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “avow”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “avow”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.