noun a vow or determination.
2. avow ·noun avowal.
3. avow ·noun to bind, or to devote, by a vow.
4. avow ·vt to acknowledge and justify, as an act done. ·see avowry.
5. 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.