avowance
noun/əˈvaʊəns/
Etymology From avow + -ance.
1
Obsolete, Usually An act of avowing; an avowal.
2
Obsolete, Usually An upholding; a defence, a vindication.
- Reader I requeſt thee do Me, thy Self, and Truth right: VVhether can my avovvance of King-murdering be collected from any thing here vvritten by me?1659, Thomas Fuller, “An Answer to Dr. Heylyn's Necessary Introduction &c.”, in The Appeal of Iniured Innocence: Unto the Religious Learned and Ingenious Reader: In a Controversie betwixt the Animadvertor Dr. Peter Heylyn and the Author Thomas Fuller, London: […] W. Godbid, and are to be sold by John Williams […], →OCLC, part I, page 45: