Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Denial; disowning; rejection; repudiation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of disavowing, disclaiming, or disowning; rejection and denial.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
denial of knowledge,relationship , and/orresponsibility towards something (or someone).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun denial of any connection with or knowledge of
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Examples
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Whatever his intention, I think Scott's disavowal is significant, particularly in light of his consistent refusal to publicly discuss his own ethnic background, which became an issue after Crossfire was released:
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007
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We start with the statement of a “fact” and we’re left with a disavowal from the also anonymous Teddy.
Waldo Jaquith - You’re never anonymous on the internet. 2007
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For Schelling's purposes, the Phrygian priests of modern European philosophy embody the spiritualizing violence and recursive loop of this desire, desire that even puts the resistant negativity of the body to efficient good work by libidinally investing its very disavowal, that is, by secretly deriving pleasure out of the ascetic renunciation of pleasure.
Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy 2000
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By making it an issue and demanding some kind of disavowal, however, the campaigns bring attention to these comments as a way of painting the other side as hitting below the belt.
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Wonder if the big news orgs will note this in their coverage of McCain's "disavowal" of Black's remarks.
Obama Camp: McCain Flip-Flopped On Question Of Whether Specter Of Terrorism Helps Him Politically! 2009
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Wonder if the big news orgs will note this in their coverage of McCain's "disavowal" of Black's remarks.
Obama Camp: McCain Flip-Flopped On Question Of Whether Specter Of Terrorism Helps Him Politically! 2009
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The new tiredness is 'located in the head' and seems to be the result of a special kind of disavowal where structurally generated work habits are perceived to be under the control of the individual to an extent that may not be the case.
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Apart from the fact of her disappearance is what I can only read as her final "disavowal" of the "Feminist" label.
Why I Will Not Disavow the "Feminist" Label Anxious Black Woman 2008
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I hesitate to remind all of my blogging bretheren, but this "disavowal" movement is a bi-partisan, intra-partisan game.
Hullabaloo 2004
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As I have noted, Freud published his "disavowal" of Moses the year before, that is to say, a year before the Nazis marched into Austria.
The Jewish Freud Gay, Peter 1987
vanishedone commented on the word disavowal
Spiked: 'At a time when Western powers cynically describe their military ventures as a disavowal of their own self-interest – apparently they fight for the humanitarian betterment of beleaguered peoples around the world – the Zionists’ use of force to express their right to exist, and to firm up their borders, is frowned upon.'
January 20, 2009