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disavow

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Word definitions for disavow in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The bus drivers' union has disavowed any involvement in the violence. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Acknowledging the confusion, the Supreme Court in 1990 disavowed its earlier opinions and announced a new approach. ▪ Barbara ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disavow \Dis`a*vow"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disavowed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Disavowing .] [F. d['e]savouer; pref. d['e]s- (L. dis-) + avouer to avow. See Avow , and cf. Disavouch .] To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French desavouer (13c.), from des- "opposite of" (see dis- ) + avouer (see avow ). Related: Disavowed ; disavowing .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with; "Her husband disavowed her after 30 years of marriage and six children" [ant: avow ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disown. 2 To deny; to show the contrary of; to disprove.

Usage examples of disavow.

Court of Vienna disavowed them, and Duroc, whom Bonaparte sent to convey the preliminaries to Vienna for the Imperial ratification, was not permitted to pass the Austrian advance poets.

Should any of the ships involved in the attack on Gijon be sunk or run aground or prized, should any of the soldiers or crewmen or nobles be captured, they were completely on their own and King Arthur would disavow any slightest knowledge of them and their nefarious ventures into kingdoms with which the Crown was at peace.

Tuttle that you suddenly disavowed this portion of your statement, where you said that Hardcore told you this was being done for Nile?

The Nietzschean affirmative, forgetful of the original negative, disavows rebellion at the same time that it disavows the ethic that refuses to accept the world as it is.

Munoz and his Cuban gang disavow the worst stuff, but they know how the Sunbelt is going.

Temple of Lims-Kragma disavowed themselves from any contact with these Nighthawks years ago, and the Temple of Guis-Wa have their own particular brand of murders, and these murders have none of the earmarks of a ritual Blood Hunt.

He could not disavow his actions, belauded as they were by half the world, and so he had to repudiate truth, goodness, and all humanity.

I am far from disavowing this evidence of my esteem for your daughter, but to justify myself I am obliged to tell you a fact which I should have otherwise kept secret--namely, that I furnished your daughter with this sum to enable her to pay your son's debts, for which he thanked me in a letter which I can shew you.

Then, thinking over the orders I gave him, he came to the conclusion that on finding myself diseased afterwards I was disgusted, and being able to disavow my presence I had done so for the sake of revenge.

Because it exhibits a body of men, numbers of whom disavow the publishing political testimonies, as being concerned therein and approvers thereof.

Secondly, Because it exhibits a body of men, numbers of whom disavow the publishing political testimonies, as being concerned therein and approvers thereof.

Their Platonising successors indeed, in after times, in order to legitimate the corruptions which they had incorporated into the doctrines of Jesus, found it necessary to disavow the primitive Christians, who had taken their principles from the mouth of Jesus himself, of his Apostles, and the Fathers cotemporary with them.

That we grossly exceeded our authority, and that she disavows everything we've done.

But we shall not be disavowed by the nation, and their act of indemnity will confirm &amp.

But the reborn Sha'ik had delved deep into the man's soul, and found it empty, bereft of faith, by some flaw of nature inclined to disavow all forms of certainty.