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disavowal

[ UK /dˌɪsɐvˈa‍ʊə‍l/ ]
NOUN
  1. denial of any connection with or knowledge of

How To Use disavowal In A Sentence

  • As the only moral criterion which we recognize is that of social utility, the public disavowal of one's conviction in order to remain in the Party's ranks is obviously more honourable than the quixotism of carrying on a hopeless struggle. Autumn
  • A deliberate disavowal of any attempt to ‘lay down didactically the principles’ of prose writing provides him with an excellent basis to do exactly that.
  • Thus the famous passage on the disavowal of the "negative" and the human "predilection for the affirmative" is also transposed from the end in the second version 'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)
  • Here we have today Scott McClellan, the president's press secretary, specifically demanding further disavowals of the story from Newsweek.
  • I accused you of denial before; this looks more like disavowal.
  • His disavowal notwithstanding, he sounded more concerned about the rights of polygamists than about the plight of child brides.
  • Apart from the fact of her disappearance is what I can only read as her final "disavowal" of the "Feminist" label. Why I Will Not Disavow the "Feminist" Label
  • Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.". Sigmund Freud 
  • Now as in the past, the claim of reportage has always stood as a disavowal of responsibility for the pictures' contents.
  • But neither the anti-phenomenalistic spirit of his neutral monism, nor his explicit disavowals of phenomenalism have managed to take the wind out of the sails of the phenomenalism suspicion. Neutral Monism
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