avouer — meaning in English

English meaning

• admit verb To allow someone or something to enter.
• avow verb To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly.
• confess verb To admit that you have done something wrong, or that something is true.

Senses

avouer is used for these senses in English:

• admit (transitive, or, intransitive) To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny (+ to).
• avow (transitive) To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly.
• come clean (idiomatic) To confess; admit the truth.
• confess (intransitive, transitive) To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.

admit — full definition

1. verb To allow someone or something to enter.
2. verb To acknowledge, often reluctantly, that something is true.

avow — full definition

1. verb To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly.
2. verb To bind or devote by a vow.
3. verb To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See avowry.

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