avowal
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O frightful! thought I; here's an Avowal of the Matter at once: I am now gone, that's certain.
From Pamela Censured by Anonymous
Perhaps that little stock of land She holds, but knows not how to till, Will suffer in the widow's hand, And make poor Mary poorer still The Avowal.
From Wild Flowers Or, Pastoral and Local Poetry by Bloomfield, Robert
The Misfortune of Too Sudden an Avowal I think as you do, Marquis, the Countess punishes you too severely for having surprised an avowal of her love.
From Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century by Overton, William Hassell
Vocabulary lists containing avowal
"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 8–13
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"The Odyssey," Vocabulary from Part 1 of the epic poem
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The Federalist Papers, No. 1 by Alexander Hamilton
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