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disavowal en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• [dɪsəˈvaʊ(ə)ɫ] (UK, US)

Etymology

Etymology tree English disavow Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English disavowal From disavow + -al.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A denial of knowledge, relationship, or responsibility towards something or someone.
   • Last week, when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected as “condescending” President Trump’s proposal for a more merit-based immigration policy, she provided a metaphor not just for the shattered condition of Washington’s governance of immigration, but also for the Democratic Party’s ideologically rigid disavowal of all principles of immigration constraint. 2019 May 20, Jerry Kammer, “Pelosi's Anti-Merit Metaphor for Governance”, in Center for Immigration Studies:
   • Whatever pleas may be urged for a disavowal of engagements formed by diplomatic functionaries in cases where by the terms of the engagements a mutual ratification is reserved, or where notice at the time may have been given of a departure from instructions, or in extraordinary cases essentially violating the principles of equity, a disavowal could not have been apprehended in a case where no such notice or violation existed, where no such ratification was reserved, and more especially where, as is now in proof, an engagement to be executed without any such ratification was contemplated by the instructions given, and where it had with good faith been carried into immediate execution on the part of the United nations. 1809, James Madison, First State of the Union address:

Forms

Relateds

disavow · disavowed

Translations (21)

sh одрицање (denial) · sh odricanje (denial) · fi kiistäminen (denial) · ru отрица́ние (denial) · fi irtisanoutuminen (denial) · fr désaveu (denial) · bg отказване (denial) · de Verleugnung (denial) · cs popření (denial) · pt repúdio (denial) · pt negação (denial) · bg отричане (denial) · fr reniement (denial) · fi kieltäytyminen (denial) · pl wyparcie się (denial) · ru отрече́ние (denial) · cs odmítnutí (denial) · sh odricanje (denial) · ro negare (denial) · ru отка́з (denial) · nl verloochening (denial)