avowed

Modifies a noun

• atheist: It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist.
• intention: We had an alcoholic among us, Len Aitken, whose avowed intention was to drink himself to death.
• intent: There's no discouragement Shall make him once relent His first avowed intent, To be a pilgrim.
• enemy: An avowed enemy of the independent media, this man was to preside over its destruction.
• aim: In three years, immigration has fallen by half, despite Sharon's avowed aim to attract a million immigrants in the next decade.
• supporter: Even Huxley, an avowed supporter, proved a formidable critic.