disallow

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  1. transitive verb To refuse to allow: "[The government] disallowed his aging and dying parents any reunion with their only child” (John Simon).
  2. transitive verb To reject as invalid, untrue, or improper.

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  • That in this justly-celebrated poem may be found a few rhymes [1] which the critical precision of English prosody at this day would disallow, cannot be denied; but with this small imperfection, which in the general blaze of its excellence is not perceived, till the mind has subsided into cool attention, it is, undoubtedly, one of the noblest productions in our language, both for sentiment and expression. —  Life Of Johnson
  • Of course I might not get the point I can almost assure you that whether to exempt admins from the username disallow was never considered, so it is neither oversight nor bug. —  phpBB.com
  • We agreed on interpreting the slogan as meaning much the same as a (predominantly and characteristically Native workers 'and peasants' republic, and not meaning a black dictatorship; and though some wanted to move amendments; and references back I felt bound, while allowing full discussion for the sake of arriving at an understanding, to disallow these as contrary to the Comintern statutes enjoining 'unreserved acceptance. —  Sidney Percival Bunting
  • “Let, then, none disallow of these my straines, —  Anne Bradstreet and Her Time
  • “Then let none disallow of these my straines —  Anne Bradstreet and Her Time
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English disallowen, from Old French desalouer, to reprimand : des-, dis- + alouer, to approve; see allow.

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  1. from Middle English disalowen, from Old French desalouer, desalower, desaloer, from Middle Latin disallocare, mixed with *disallaudare, written (after Old French) disaloudare, disallow, from Latin dis- privative + Middle Latin allocare, assign, allow, Latin allaudare, praise, Middle Latin approve, allow, later Old French alouer, allow: see dis-and allow, allow.
 

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/dɪsəˈlaʊ/
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