Avowal

ahd-5
  • noun. A frank admission or acknowledgment.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An open declaration; a frank acknowledgment.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An open declaration; frank acknowledgment.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An open declaration of affirmation or admission of knowledge.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something
  • Word Usage
    "Thus, in one place we have the following avowal, which is only not _naïf_ because evidently put in to please the prejudices of sympathetically narrow readers."
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