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Where does “avowableness” come from?

avowableness (English) comes from English avowable, from English avow, from Middle English avowen, from Old French avouer, from Latin advocāre, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille.

avowableness (English): The state or quality of being avowable

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being avowable

Ancestry of “avowableness”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishavowableCapable of being avowed or openly acknowledged...
2EnglishavowTo declare openly and boldly, as something...
3Middle Englishavowen—
4Old Frenchavouer—
5Latinadvocāre—
6LatinAd—
7Latinilliche, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that...
8Latinillethat; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that...
9LatinolleArchaic form of ille
10Proto-Italic*olnos—
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