Disavow Definition

dĭsə-vou
disavowed, disavowing, disavows
verb
disavowed, disavowing, disavows
To deny any knowledge or approval of, or responsibility for; disclaim; disown.
Webster's New World
To assert to be wrong or of little value.
American Heritage

To deny; to show the contrary of; to disprove.

Because of her dissatisfaction, she now disavows the merits of fascism.
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Origin of Disavow

  • Middle English disavowen from Old French desavouer des- dis- avouer to avow avow

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From dis- + avow or from Old French desavouer.

    From Wiktionary

Disavow Sentence Examples

  • 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.

  • Bebel denounced this agitation as obviously directed against England; and the government thought it expedient to disavow the action of its too zealous allies.

  • Resentment, however, incited him to personal revenge on the Californian government, and an ambition that clearly saw the gravity of the crisis prompted him to improve it unscrupulously for his own advancement, leaving his The government to support or disavow him according as P1 war should come or not.

  • When the queen was dead, and some rumours of the kings intentions got abroad, the public indignation was so great that Henry of Richards councillors had to warn him to disavow the Richmond projected marriage, if he wished to retain a single lands at adherenf.

  • Eckhart appears, however, to have made a conditional recantation - that is, he professed to disavow whatever in his writings could be shown to be erroneous.

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