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avowants

avowants is the plural of avowant.

Meaning of avowant

Noun

avowant (plural avowants)

  1. The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking.
    • the demandant Plaintiff, or avowant, this is peremptory by the same Statute1578, Sir Robert Brooke, New Cases in the Time of Henry VIII

Questions about avowants

What is avowants the plural of?
Avowants is the plural of avowant.

Words near avowants in the dictionary

  1. avowal
  2. avowals
  3. avowance
  4. avowances
  5. avowant
  6. avowants
  7. avowed
  8. avowedly
  9. avowedness
  10. avowee
  11. avowees

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