Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Denial; disowning; rejection; repudiation.
Wiktionary
- n. A denial of knowledge, relationship, and/or responsibility towards something (or someone).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of disavowing, disclaiming, or disowning; rejection and denial.
WordNet 3.0
- n. denial of any connection with or knowledge of
Examples
“Whatever his intention, I think Scott's disavowal is significant, particularly in light of his consistent refusal to publicly discuss his own ethnic background, which became an issue after Crossfire was released:”
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
“We start with the statement of a “fact” and we’re left with a disavowal from the also anonymous Teddy.”
“For Schelling's purposes, the Phrygian priests of modern European philosophy embody the spiritualizing violence and recursive loop of this desire, desire that even puts the resistant negativity of the body to efficient good work by libidinally investing its very disavowal, that is, by secretly deriving pleasure out of the ascetic renunciation of pleasure.”
Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy
“By making it an issue and demanding some kind of disavowal, however, the campaigns bring attention to these comments as a way of painting the other side as hitting below the belt.”
“Wonder if the big news orgs will note this in their coverage of McCain's "disavowal" of Black's remarks.”
Obama Camp: McCain Flip-Flopped On Question Of Whether Specter Of Terrorism Helps Him Politically!
“Apart from the fact of her disappearance is what I can only read as her final "disavowal" of the "Feminist" label.”
“The new tiredness is 'located in the head' and seems to be the result of a special kind of disavowal where structurally generated work habits are perceived to be under the control of the individual to an extent that may not be the case.”
“I hesitate to remind all of my blogging bretheren, but this "disavowal" movement is a bi-partisan, intra-partisan game.”
“As I have noted, Freud published his "disavowal" of Moses the year before, that is to say, a year before the Nazis marched into Austria.”
“Elisabeth Guigou, a former Socialist justice minister, said that Mr Sarkozy's personal intervention was a "disavowal" of Miss Dati.”
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vanishedone Spiked: 'At a time when Western powers cynically describe their military ventures as a disavowal of their own self-interest – apparently they fight for the humanitarian betterment of beleaguered peoples around the world – the Zionists’ use of force to express their right to exist, and to firm up their borders, is frowned upon.' Jan 20, 2009