Word Meanings - DISAVOWAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of disavowing, disclaiming, or disowning; rejection and denial. An earnest disavowal of fear often proceeds from fear. Richardson.

Related words: (words related to DISAVOWAL)

• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• DISAVOWMENT
  Disavowal. Wotton.
• DISAVOWER
  One who disavows.
• DISCLAIM
  To relinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office. Burrill. Syn. -- To disown; disavow; renounce; repudiate. (more info) 1. To renounce all claim to deny; ownership of, or
• EARNEST
  Seriousness; reality; fixed determination; eagerness; intentness. Take heed that this jest do not one day turn to earnest. Sir P. Sidney. And given in earnest what I begged in jest. Shak. In earnest, serious; seriously; not in jest; earnestly.
• EARNESTLY
  In an earnest manner.
• OFTENNESS
  Frequency. Hooker.
• DISAVOW
  1. To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, an the like; to disclaim; to disown; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime. A solemn promise made and disavowed. Dryden.
• REJECTION
  Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.
• DISOWN
  1. To refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one's self; to disavow or deny, as connected with one's self personally; as, a parent can hardly disown his child; an author will sometimes disown his writings. 2. To refuse to acknowledge
• OFTEN
  Frequently; many times; not seldom.
• DISOWNMENT
  Act of disowning.
• DISAVOWAL
  The act of disavowing, disclaiming, or disowning; rejection and denial. An earnest disavowal of fear often proceeds from fear. Richardson.
• DENIAL
  1. The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation. You ought to converse with so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. A refusal to admit the truth
• OFTENSITH
  Frequently; often. For whom I sighed have so oftensith. Gascoigne.
• OFTENTIMES
  Frequently; often; many times. Wordsworth.
• EARNESTNESS
  The state or quality of being earnest; intentness; anxiety. An honest earnestness in the young man's manner. W. Irving.
• DISCLAIMER
  A denial, disavowal, or renunciation, as of a title, claim, interest, estate, or trust; relinquishment or waiver of an interest or estate. Burrill. 3. A public disavowal, as of pretensions, claims, opinions, and the like. Burke. (more info) 1.
• PROCEEDS
  That which comes forth or results; effect; yield; issue; product; sum accruing from a sale, etc.
• EARNESTFUL
  Serious. Chaucer.
• OVEREARNEST
  Too earnest. -- O"ver*ear"nest*ly, adv. -- O"ver*ear"nest*ness, n.
• UNOFTEN
  Not often.
• SELF-DENIAL
  The denial of one's self; forbearing to gratify one's own desires; self-sacrifice.