Maana ya kamusi ya neno "avow" ni kudai au kutangaza jambo kwa uwazi au rasmi, mara nyingi kwa njia ya uaminifu au uaminifu. Inaweza pia kumaanisha kukiri au kukubali jambo fulani kwa kusita au kwa kusitasita.
In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man incapable of holding any public station for since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence, the Lilliputians think nothing can be more absurd than for a prince to employ such men as disown the authority under which he acts.
For although few men will avow their desires of being immortal upon such hard conditions, yet in the two kingdoms before mentioned, of Balnibarbi and Japan, he observed that every man desired to put off death for some time longer, let it approach ever so late and he rarely heard of any man who died willingly, except he were incited by the extremity of grief or torture.
