disavowment

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

disavow +‎ -ment

Noun[edit]

disavowment (usually uncountable, plural disavowments)

  1. disavowal
    • 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 (ſayes the Cardinal ) will not press you to any disavowment thereof, though you have an Epistle before the Original Edition