Synonyms:
avow, avouch
Meaning: admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about
Synonyms:
affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear
Meaning: to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent"
Usage examples
Foolish though it may be, you have often heard me avow my faith in the tones of the human voice!"
So there were many knights made their avow, an ever they met with Morgan le Fay, that they would show her short courtesy.
Leaving a part to his majesty, is to avow that that part has inspired you with doubts as to the lawfulness of the means of acquisition."
Any mention of the subject of slavery was thought in the worst possible taste, and no one could avow himself opposed to it without the risk of social ostracism.