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disavowment

disavowment noun: disavowal.

Noun

disavowment (usually uncountable, plural disavowments)

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

Forms of disavowment

pluraldisavowments

Origin of disavowment

From disavow + -ment.

Questions about disavowment

What does disavowment mean?
Disavowment means disavowal.
What part of speech is disavowment?
Disavowment is a noun.
What is the plural of disavowment?
The plural of disavowment is disavowments.

Words near disavowment in the dictionary

  1. disavowers
  2. disavowest
  3. disavoweth
  4. disavowing
  5. disavowingly
  6. disavowment
  7. disavowments
  8. disavows
  9. disawa
  10. disawas
  11. disawe

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