vowedly

[Eng. avowed; -ly.] Openly, confe edly, admittedly. "Temple's plan of government was now arowedly abandoned and and very soon forgotten." - Macaulay: list . Eng . , ch. ii. a-vow-ee, * a-vow-ē, s . [In Fr. avoué = (formerly) the protector of a church or religious community; ( now ) a lawyer.] A. Ord. Lang.: An acknowledged friend. "That thou beo heore avo we." A lisa under, 3,160. (S. in Boucher .) B. Law, .: A person to whom the advowson of a church belongs. and so in dured Sir Robert Marmyon and Someroyle as arowes of the howys alle the tyme of the lyfe of William the Bastarde."-Monast. Anglic, il 178. (S. in Boucher .)