avail
Speech parts
1. avail - Noun
2. avail - Verb
Meaning
To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment.
To promote; to assist.
To be of use or advantage; to answer the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object; as, the plea in bar must avail, that is, be sufficient to defeat the suit; this scheme will not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease.
Profit; advantage toward success; benefit; value; as, labor, without economy, is of little avail.
Proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction.
See Avale, v.
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The Lord withdraws when He is denied, and what is taken by the undeserving does not avail them unto salvation, since the saving grace is turned into ashes and holiness departs.
It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
If words fail no others will avail.
Bashfulness will not avail a beggar.
Where gold chinks, arguments are of no avail.