disavowaln.
/ˌdɪsəˈvaʊəl/, U.S. /ˌdɪsəˈvaʊ(ə)l/ The action of disavowing something; esp. the action of refusing to acknowledge or accept something. Also: an instance of this.
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the mind > language > statement > repudiation or refusal to acknowledge > [noun]
unknowledgea1400
disclaimc1436
disappropriation1555
abrenunciation1557
disclaiming1574
disavowry1588
disavowing1602
disclamation1606
disavowment1618
disavower1648
disavowal1660
disavowancea1716
disclaimer1748
repudiation1858
1660 G. Bridges tr. Duc de Rohan Memoires iii. 99 The Chamber at Beziers, and the Presidial of Nismes also..make goodly Acts of disavowal [Fr. actes de desadveu], which they sent to the Court.
1694 tr. E. Benoist Hist. Famous Edict of Nantes II. iv. 237 The Reason of this disavowal [Fr. desaveu] was that the Court would not consent to the Continuation of the Assembly after the Conclusion of the Treaty.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa v. 55 Then the busy Miss Rawlins fished on, to find out from her either a confirmation or disavowal of my story.
1780 Earl of Malmesbury Let. 17 Mar. in Diaries & Corr. (1844) I. 287 He goes so far as to say that..I very soon shall have a flat disavowal from my Court.
1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. v. 114 The disavowal of the acts of a minister threw everything back.
1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh I. ii. 30 An official disavowal followed in due course.
1923 H. G. Baynes tr. C. G. Jung Psychol. Types v. 230 The religion of the last two thousand years..has, thereby, created an atmosphere which remains wholly uninfluenced by any intellectual disavowal.
1988 Jrnl. Design Hist. 1 135/2 Their sexuality..is ungendered: precisely a disavowal of difference..in classical Freudian terms, fetishistic.
2006 Independent on Sunday 31 Dec. 25/1 One of the profound shifts in legal attitudes has been the gradual disavowal of capital punishment.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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