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Definition of disavowed : of Disavow

Synonyms:

disproved, rejoined, abrogated, disputed, silenced, conflicting, repealed, contradicted, rebutted, conflicted, confuted, challenged

counterbalanced, overturned, reversed, inverted, checked

backslid, abdicated, renounced, crossed, deserted, defected, abnegated, denied, betrayed, abandoned, retracted

denounced

divorced, refuted, invalidated, abolished, dismissed, neutralized, destroyed, eradicated, dissolved, negated, repudiated, eliminated, undid, rejected, canceled, nullified, effaced, obliterated, annulled, withdrawn, vetoed, revoked, withdrew, extinguished, disaffirmed, deleted, disclaimed, undone

Usage examples:

• I knew that there was a poem of the same title in circulation, which passed for Voltaire's; but I also knew that he disavowed it, and I thought that would make him conceal the vexation my explanation must have caused him. - "The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons", Jacques Casanova de Seingalt.
• The theory of this small pro- German group in New York was that Congress would at that time have done anything to avoid war, and that they had only accepted the Gore resolution in order to humiliate the President in the eyes of the world as no head of a State had ever been disavowed before. - "My Three Years in America", Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff.
• But one opinion appeared at first to prevail in the nation,- that Jackson had not only acted without, but against, his instructions; that he had commenced war upon Spain, which could not be justified, and in which, if not disavowed by the administration, they would be abandoned by the country. - "Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams.", Josiah Quincy.