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Refuse to acknowledge
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disclaim
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To renounce all claim to; to deny ownership of or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject. 2 To deny, as a claim; to refuse. 3 (context legal English) To relinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disclaim \Dis*claim"\, v. t. To disavow or renounce all part, claim, or share. --Blackstone. Disclaim in , Disclaim from , to disown; to disavow. [Obs.] ``Nature disclaims in thee.'' --Shak.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN responsibility ▪ In spite of this, Hedley Byrne did not recover its loss since the reports submitted by Heller &038; Partners had expressly disclaimed responsibility . ▪ Janir held his hands in the air, disclaiming all ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. renounce a legal claim or title to [ant: claim ] make a disclaimer about; "He disclaimed any responsibility" [ant: claim ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Anglo-French disclaimer , Old French desclamer "disclaim, disavow," from des- (see dis- ) + clamer "to call, cry out, claim" (see claim (v.)). Related: Disclaimed ; disclaiming .
Usage examples of disclaim.
Some of them disclaimed the use of living animals in teacher, or the use of animals higher in the scale than turtles or frogs.
The Carmathians were ripe for rebellion, since they disclaimed the title of the house of Abbas, and abhorred the worldly pomp of the caliphs of Bagdad.
In his last visit to Rome, he piously disclaimed and insulted the superstition of his ancestors, by refusing to lead the military procession of the equestrian order, and to offer the public vows to the Jupiter of the Capitoline Hill.
We deplore the unnecessary deaths of the three passengers aboard the Fokker Friendship but disclaim all responsibility.
The secessionists disclaim revolutionary principles, and hold that the right of secession is anterior to the convention, a right which the convention could neither give, nor take away, because inherent in the very conception of a sovereign State.
This aversion--the very antipodes to hypocrisy--leads men not only to disclaim the virtues they have, but to pretend to the vices they have not.
In disclaiming any moral intentions and describing himself as a soldier of fortune, the protagonist of The False Burton Combs sets the Race Williams pattern.
We now returned to Edinburgh, where I passed some days with men of learning, whose names want no advancement from my commemoration, or with women of elegance, which perhaps disclaims a pedant's praise.
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The pious horror of his antagonists provoked them to disclaim all sensual circumstances of conception and delivery.
One method, indeed, there is of killing, and that the basest and most execrable of all, which bears an exact analogy to the vice here disclaimed against, and that is poison: a means of revenge so base, and yet so horrible, that is was once wisely distinguished by our laws from all other murders, in the peculiar severity of the punishment.
Socrates, though he affectedly disclaims all hopes of favor or fame, composes an elaborate panegyric on the emperor, and cautiously suppresses the merits of his sister, (l.
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In his last visit to Rome, he piously disclaimed and insulted the superstition of his ancestors, by refusing to lead the military procession of the equestrian order, and to offer the public vows to the Jupiter of the Capitoline Hill.
The inflexible spirit of the Roman senate had always disclaimed the unequal conditions which were extorted from the distress of their captive armies.