Definition of Disavowing

1. Verb. (present participle of disavow) ¹

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Definition of Disavowing

1. disavow [v] - See also: disavow

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disavowing

disaventure
disaventures
disaventurous
disavouch
disavouched
disavouches
disavouching
disavow
disavowable
disavowal
disavowals
disavowance
disavowed
disavower
disavowers
disavowing (current term)
disavowment
disavowments
disavows
disband
disbanded
disbanding
disbandment
disbandments
disbands
disbar
disbark
disbarked
disbarking
disbarks

Literary usage of Disavowing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Original Letters, Illustrative of English History: Including Numerous Royal by Henry Ellis (1824)
"... Elizabeth to King James the Sixth, disavowing her having caused the Execution of the Queen of Scots. [MS. COTTON. CALM. c. ix. fol. 181. ..."

2. Manual of Political Ethics: Designed Chiefly for the Use of Colleges and by Francis Lieber, Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1876)
"Greek Meaning of Liberty: absolute Equality, even disavowing the Inequality of Talent and Virtue.—Protection of the Individual, first object of the Moderns ..."

3. Manual of Political Ethics, Designed Chiefly for the Use of Colleges and by Francis Lieber, Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1876)
"Greek Meaning of Liberty: absolute Equality, even disavowing the Inequality of Talent and Virtue.—Protection of the Individual, first object of the Moderns; ..."

4. History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon: Forming a by Adolphe Thiers (1845)
"... in that Spirit by M. de Fontanes—Necessity for disavowing that Pamphlet—Lucien Bonaparte removed from the Ministry of the Interior and sent to Spain. ..."

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