disavowal
pronunciation
How to pronounce disavowal in British English:
UK [ˌdɪsə'vaʊəl]
How to pronounce disavowal in American English:
US [ˌdɪsə'vaʊəl]
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- Noun:
- denial of any connection with or knowledge of
Word Origin
- disavowal (n.)
- 1748; see disavow + -al (2).
Example
- 1. But the commissioner 's disavowal of further legislation may disappoint some intellectual property rights holders , who would like to see tougher legal sanctions .
- 2. Your disavowal is informed by a misunderstanding .
- 3. This paper attempts to elaborate this tendency in a more positive way , arguing that its disavowal of the authority and metaphysical nature of traditional morals in fact engendered a new moral narrative notion , which indicated the end of the priority of morality in the novel narrative .
- 4. The academic part would have liked more precise definitions of the concepts of disavowal and vertical split , as opposed to other defense mechanisms , and references to the research literature .
- 5. For many americans , only an explicit disavowal of his past support for such theories would signal that he is a decent man worth dealing with .