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Definition of Avail

Avail 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. Related Definitions: Accomplish, Advantage, Answer, As, Assist, Auction, Avail, Avale, Bar, Be, Benefit, By, Check, Day, Defeat, Disease, Economy, Efficacy, Force, Have, Help, In, Is, Judgment, Labor, Little, Must, Not, Object, Of, Or, Plea, Proceeds, Profit, Promote, Purpose, Sale, Scheme, See, Service, Sinner, Strength, Success, Sufficient, Suit, That, The, This, To, Toward, Turn, Use, Value, Will, Without

Avail Quotations We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so. Franz Kafka No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. Thomas Carlyle It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood. James Madison There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. Aldous Huxley A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory. Charles Horton Cooley

Avail Translations avail in German is helfen, sich zunutze machen, Gebrauch machen avail in Latin is possum posse potum

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