Spectator, witness, viewer, watcher, looker nounĪ close observer someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind) Someone who sees an event and reports what happenedĪttestant, watcher, attestator, informant, spectator, viewer, source, attestor, witnesser, looker Princeton's WordNet Rate these synonyms: 1.8 / 5 votes Compare CONFESS STATE.Īdmit, aver, avouch, avow, confess, declare, knowledge, own, proclaim, profess, protest, testifyĬontradict, deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, ignore, repudiate
Own applies to all things, good or bad, great or small, which one takes as his own. Avow has usually a good sense what a person avows he at least does not treat as blameworthy, criminal, or shameful if he did, he would be said to confess it yet there is always the suggestion that some will be ready to challenge or censure what one avows as, the clergyman avowed his dissent from the doctrine of his church. Avow and avouch take a direct object aver is followed by a conjunction: a man avows his faith, avouches a deed, avers that he was present. A man acknowledges another's claim or his own promise he admits an opponent's advantage or his own error he declares either what he has seen or experienced or what he has received from another he avers what he is sure of from his own knowledge or consciousness he gives his assurance as the voucher for what he avouches he avows openly a belief or intention that he has silently held. To avow is to declare boldly and openly, commonly as something one is ready to justify, maintain, or defend. Acknowledge, admit, and declare refer either to oneself or to others all the other words refer only to one's own knowledge or action.
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