disavowal

disavow | American Dictionary

disavow
verb[ T ]
us/ˌdɪs·əˈvɑʊ/
to say that you know nothing about or have no responsibility for something:
He disavowed his earlier confession to the police.

Examples of disavow

disavow
He thoroughly disavowed every thing of the sort, and regretted that it was ever surmised that such were their motives.
The attempt to discredit sectarian practices asserted the professionalism of regular medicine by implicitly disavowing its curious past as well as asserting its clinical present.
Yet this effect of the legalistic context, like the photograph itself, also fades from view by disavowing its status as an effect.
These could be removed only by publicly disavowing further expansion.$!
Because of their own superior knowledge, they could reasonably disavow the scepticism of others when this conflicted with their own expert opinions.
Similarly, parties disavowing certain coalition possibilities usually keep those promises as well.
The author correctly disavows both implications in her comments, but based solely on the translation they are possible interpretations.
Musical analysts sometimes allow the same mystique to isolate music from culture, or to disavow the seriousness of musical studies that lack deep formal analysis.
It articulated a set of values that conservatives wanted desperately to disavow, combining anti-government rhetoric, staunch pro-capitalism, and atheism into a particularly noxious mixture.
Early modern writers who disavowed deliberate eloquence would, they argued, be taking an anti-rhetorical position.
What is the freakish secret that the budding diva must choose not to disavow?
This seems a natural fit : in indeterministic cases, physical law explicitly disavows a role in some aspects of the determination of nature.
He wisely disavows any attempt summarily to verbalize this vision; but his book and, more importantly, his music each takes us capably towards it.
But, while the observer locates himself in the midst of his preferred topos, his mode of scienticity disavows his own lived experience of that space.
Though disavowed, class and its inequalities influence the kinds of writing we study and the universities in which we teach.
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