Avow

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A vow or determination.

II. Avow ·noun Avowal.

III. Avow ·noun To bind, or to devote, by a vow.

IV. Avow ·vt To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. ·see Avowry.

V. Avow ·vt To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes.