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/dˌɪsəvˈaʊ/ Listen

verb

Disavow v. t. (past & past part. disavowed; pres. part. disavowing)

To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disown; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime. "A solemn promise made and disavowed."

To deny; to show the contrary of; to disprove. "Yet can they never Toss into air the freedom of my birth, Or disavow my blood Plantagenet's."

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Etymology of 'Disavow'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Disavow" Quotes from Famous Books

... be When Love His name shall disavow, When christen'd men His wrath shall dree, Who mercy scorn'd in this their day; But what? He turns not yet away, ...

— Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. • Jean Ingelow

... this scornfully, yet not without a sort of curiosity, and a wish to receive an answer; for the desire of prying into futurity frequently has some influence even on the minds of those who disavow all belief in the possibility ...

— A Legend of Montrose • Sir Walter Scott

... changed; yet he felt too exhausted to disavow the servant's conclusion. Certainly the episode of the luggage had made his task easier at this point; only, however, to enhance the greater hazards, as if fate were again laughing at him, offering him too much ease, too great comfort, seeking to allure him with a false estimate ...

— Half A Chance • Frederic S. Isham

... treason of Marmont, Augereau, Talleyrand, and Lafayette. I forgive them—may the posterity of France forgive them as I do! I pardon Louis for the libel he published in 1820; it is replete with false assertions and falsified documents. I disavow the 'Manuscript of St. Helena,' and other works, under the title of 'Maxims, Sayings,' etc., which persons have been pleased to publish for the last six years. Such are not the rules which have guided my life. I caused ...

— A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year - Volume Two (of Three) • Edwin Emerson

... the slaughter of the human race, may yet be compelled to abandon her pacific policy, and to risk the doleful casualties of war; what limit is there to the extent of our loss? None within the reach of my words to express; none which your feelings will not disavow. ...

— From Farm House to the White House • William M. Thayer

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