disacknowledgementn.
/ˌdɪsəkˈnɒlᵻdʒm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˌdɪsəkˈnɑlədʒm(ə)nt/ The action or an act of declining to acknowledge; rejection, renunciation. Cf. disacknowledge v.
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the mind > language > statement > refusal > [noun] > disavowal or refusal to acknowledge something
disclaiming1574
denial1590
disacknowledge1603
disacknowledgement1650
disacknowledging1655
1650 N. Ward Discolliminium 8 No..conscientious Subject ought to obey such a Power..with an acknowledgement of its Authority, or without a disacknowledgement of it.
1661 R. Sanderson Episcopacy (1673) 55 A disacknowledgment of the Kings Authority and Supremacy Ecclesiastical.
1811 Independent Whig 27 Oct. 2036/3 If he [sc. God] confers Royalty on a new family..their own title is connected with the disacknowledgement of the perpetuity of right of the ejected.
1834 Papers Condition & Treatm. Native Inhabitants Southern Afr.: Pt. I (1835) 185 I fear that mode is the last that will be resorted to, namely, the disacknowledgement of the transaction by the commander-in-chief.
1905 K. Nordlund Swedish-Norwegian Union Crisis b xxvi. 102 Herewith I appeal that..Your Majesty intimates disacknowledgement of the government, proclaimed by the Storthings.
1962 William & Mary Q. 19 419 Disacknowledgement of the ordinances of councils, and that great breath of a ministerial judge, is very visible in many churches.
2008 Internat. Affairs 84 866 The repeated disacknowledgement by top US foreign policy-makers during the massacre that anything on the scale of genocide was happening in Rwanda.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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