Literary notes about Avowal (AI summary)
In literature, "avowal" is often employed to signify a direct and forceful declaration of one's inner thoughts, feelings, or convictions. It functions as both an intimate confession and an assertion of personal truth, whether in the context of love and emotional entanglement ([1], [2]), or as a philosophical statement underpinning one's belief system and moral stance ([3], [4]). The term is versatile, sometimes highlighting a pivotal moment of transformation or moral reckoning, as when an avowal marks the turning point in a character’s emotional journey ([5]), or even when its public expression carries the weight of societal or legal consequence ([6]).
- This he considered sufficient encouragement, and the avowal of all that he felt and had long felt for her, immediately followed.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - The minister of police maintained a silence which was equivalent to a complete avowal.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - For how should the mere avowal of my will to exclude others from the use of a thing at once give me a right to it?
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer - Clearly such an avowal itself requires a foundation of right, instead of being one, as Kant assumes.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer - Oh, of course, such an outpouring, such an avowal is only possible once in a lifetime—at the hour of death, for instance, on the way to the scaffold!
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - It is impossible to conceive the disgust which this avowal awakened in the bosoms of the hearers.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
