Get Affordable VMs - excellent virtual server hosting


browse words by letter
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
disavow

more about disavow

disavow


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Disavow  \Dis`a*vow"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Disavowed};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Disavowing}.]  [F.  d['e]savouer;  pref.  d['e]s-  (L. 
  dis-)  +  avouer  to  avow.  See  {Avow},  and  cf  {Disavouch}.] 
  1.  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. 
 
  A  solemn  promise  made  and  disavowed.  --Dryden. 
 
  2.  To  deny;  to  show  the  contrary  of  to  disprove. 
 
  Yet  can  they  never  Toss  into  air  the  freedom  of  my 
  birth,  Or  disavow  my  blood  Plantagenet's.  --Ford. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  disavow 
  v  :  refuse  to  acknowledge;  disclaim  knowledge  of  responsibility 
  for  or  association  with  "Her  husband  disavowed  her 
  after  30  years  of  marriage  and  six  children"  [ant:  {avow}] 




more about disavow