Citations:aval

English citations of aval

Adjective: "(rare) of, related to, or characteristic of a grandparent"

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• 1971 — Fred O. Sink, "Of The People", The Dispatch, 18 October 1971:

  […] and (2) all too often it occurs that the grandparents listed are contemporaries of mine and therefore far too young to qualify in the aval category.

• 1973 — Wilfred T. Neill, Twentieth-Century Indonesia, Columbia University Press (1973), →ISBN, page 299:

  Sosrodihardjo found it hard to support his children, and the young Sukarno was sent to stay with his grandmother […] Believing that the boy had supernatural powers of healing, she put him to licking the afflicted parts of ailing villagers, and decided that he would be a clairvoyant. But alas for aval ambitions; Sukarno turned out to be a visionary of quite a different sort.

• 2010 — William Penn, Love in the Time of Flowers, Trafford Publishing (2010), →ISBN, page 254:

  I fell into despondency at the loss of my aval security blanket, started having crying spells.