| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To disclaim, deny, disown, negate or abnegate.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To gainsay, contradict or controvert.[Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Present participle conjugation of the verb disavow.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (disavow) | 1. Refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with; "Her husband disavowed her after 30 years of marriage and six children".[Wordnet]. 2. 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.[Websters]. 3. To deny; to show the contrary of; to disprove.[Websters]. 4. Base verb from the following inflections: disavowing, disavowed, disavows, disavower, disavowers, disavowingly and disavowedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "DISAVOWING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1647. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DISAVOWING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Denying; disowning; rejecting as something not to be maintained or vindicated.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of disavow. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: disavow
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| To disavow | Law | TO DISAVOW. 1. To deny the authority by which an agent pretends to have acted as when he has exceeded the bounds of his authority. 2. It is the duty of the principal to fulfill the contracts which have been entered into by his authorized agent; and when an agent has exceeded his authority, he ought promptly to disavow such act, so that the other party may have his remedy against the agent. See Agent; Principal. (references) | |
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