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disavowment

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

disavowal

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

Examples

  • January 17 1637, Henry Wotton, letter to the Right Worthy Provost and Professor Regius of Divinity in Cambridge For as touching the Tridentine History, His Holiness (ayes the Cardinal ) will not press you to any disavowment thereof, though you have an Epistle before the Original Edition

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History

Etymology

From disavow + -ment.