Lexicographical Neighbors of Reavow
Literary usage of Reavow
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poet Lore (1900)
"I swore it solemnly, and on this sword I will announce and reavow to you, that
whosoever conquers in this fight may claim me for his wife when he desires. ..."
2. The Life and Speeches of the Hon. Henry Clay by Henry Clay (1844)
"I believed then in the truth of the resolution; and I now in my place, and under
all my responsibility, reavow my unshaken conviction of it. ..."
3. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by Thomas Hart Benton, United States Congress (1861)
"I believed then in the truth of the resolution ; and I now, in my place, and
under all my responsibility, reavow ..."
4. The Works of Henry Clay by Henry Clay (1863)
"I believed then in the truth of the resolution ; and I now in my place, and under
all my responsibility, reavow my unshaken conviction of it. ..."
5. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander (1855)
"... and these were only waiting for some favorable political change, to reavow
publicly the principles they had never relinquished, and to labor more ..."
6. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander, Joseph Torrey (1869)
"... merely for the sake of retaining their bishoprics; and these were only waiting
for some favorable political change, to reavow publicly the principles ..."
7. Sketches of Virginia, Historical and Biographical by William Henry Foote (1855)
"... would be compelled to reavow the Confession of Faith as their platform, and
perhaps separate from those most excited by these matters of disputation. ..."
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