The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disclaim \Dis*claim"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disclaimed; p. pr. & vb. n. Disclaiming.]
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To renounce all claim to deny; ownership of, or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject.
He calls the gods to witness their offense; Disclaims the war, asserts his innocence.
--Dryden.He disclaims the authority of Jesus.
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To deny, as a claim; to refuse.
The payment was irregularly made, if not disclaimed.
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(Law) To relinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office.
--Burrill.Syn: To disown; disavow; renounce; repudiate.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of disclaim English)
Usage examples of "disclaiming".
Lowering his voice, Ibryen said with disclaiming urgency, ‘If you persist in provoking Rachyl she may well throw you over the edge of somewhere very high before I can stop her, or, I suspect, before you can do one of your tricks.
He gave a hasty disclaiming wave as if anxious to get away from the subject.
Kai said, disclaiming their fulsome compliments, "and, of course, we don't know how the polar region or the southern tip have changed with tectonic action .
Both of Deets's hands turned palms up as though disclaiming any knowledge whatsoever.
Holmes shook his head, disclaiming knowledge of this sinister citizen.
From the barman, the waitress and the assistant assistant in turn he got weak disclaiming shakes of the head and none of the defiance that they had shown to Ridger.
He couldn’t have stood there so unconcernedly disclaiming knowledge in front of us if he’d known that the something that had happened was our being shot.
Since Lord Byron’s marital difficulties were among the most scandalous on dit of the town—it being widely rumored that he was, at the earnest solicitations of his friends, on the point of leaving the country—this remark at once made the discussion seem undesirably raffish, and everyone was relieved when Hubert, disclaiming any liking for poetry, went into raptures over the capital novel, Waverley.
In the event, to lie upon the sofa in Mama’s dressing room, to drive sedately out with her in the barouche, just suited Amabel’s present humor, and so it was settled, both Cecilia and Sophy disclaiming any desire to leave London for the country.
And then Rigo was there, and were confronting Eugenie, who was crying and disclaiming any fault and making it hard for them by babbling but telling them nothing, nothing they could use against the mounting anger all around them.