Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To deny or renounce any claim to or connection with; disown.
- intransitive verb To deny the validity of; repudiate.
- intransitive verb Law To decline to accept responsibility for; decline to make any warranty for.
- intransitive verb To decline to accept responsibility or to warranty.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To deny or relinquish all claim to; reject as not belonging to one's self; renounce: as, he disclaims any riġht to interfere in the affairs of his neighbor; he disclaims all pretension to military skill.
- To deny responsibility for or approval of; disavow; disown; deny.
- To refuse to acknowledge; renounce; reject.
- In law, to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office.
- In heraldry, to subject to a disclaimer; declare not to be entitled to bear the arms assumed. See
disclaimer , 4. - To disavow all claim, part, or share: with in.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To disavow or renounce all part, claim, or share.
- transitive verb [Obs.] to disown; to disavow.
- transitive verb To renounce all claim to deny; ownership of, or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject.
- transitive verb To deny, as a claim; to refuse.
- transitive verb (Law) To relinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To renounce all claim to; to
deny ownership of or responsibility for; todisown ; todisavow ; toreject . - verb To deny, as a claim; to
refuse . - verb law To
relinquish or deny having a claim; todisavow another's claim; todecline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make a disclaimer about
- verb renounce a legal claim or title to
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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[1894] Padua in Italy they have a stone called the stone of turpitude, near the senate-house, where spendthrifts, and such as disclaim non-payment of debts, do sit with their hinder parts bare, that by that note of disgrace others may be terrified from all such vain expense, or borrowing more than they can tell how to pay.
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At the same time, more people are opting for plans that allow their heirs to "disclaim," or decline, part of their inheritance, thereby reducing their estate.
Families Rethink 2007
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And finally, if an intellectual property right holder wants to "disclaim" or "waive" her rights, what business is it of WIPOs?
- Boing Boing 2003
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The City Council will consider a resolution Monday to "disclaim" the deed transfer.
unknown title 2009
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"By their own admission in the words of their signed contracts with government agencies, voting machine vendors" disclaim "or refuse to stand behind their products.
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This is just as true among Americans with graduate degrees as it is among high school dropouts, as true in the secular Northeast as in the devout Deep South, and equally true at all ages, among all races, and in all religious traditions, including those who disclaim all formal religious affiliation!
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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One third of those who disclaim all religious affiliation this year will report some affiliation next year, and their departure will be offset by people who claimed a religious affiliation this year, but next year will report none.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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Though not visible in that figure, the same applies to the religion/no-religion line; that is, the frequency of marriages between people with some religious identity and people who disclaim any religious identity.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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The protesters aren't ideologues and most disclaim membership in either political parties or unions, though some of the strategic and organizational backbone of the movement has come from a recently formed political group called ¡Democracia Real YA!
Ellen Freudenheim: 15 Mayo: What Will It Mean for U.S. Youth Election Year Activism? Ellen Freudenheim 2011
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People who disclaim are generally treated as if they had died before the person making the gift.
Rich Folks Seek To Undo 2010 Taxable Gifts Deborah L. Jacobs 2011
ofravens commented on the word disclaim
the towel
dryly disclaims that fierce troll faces lurk
in its explicit folds
from "Tale of a Tub," by Sylvia Plath
April 14, 2008