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/dɪsklˈeɪm/ Listen

verb

Disclaim v. t. (past & past part. disclaimed; pres. part. disclaiming)

To renounce all claim to deny; ownership of, or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject. "He calls the gods to witness their offense; Disclaims the war, asserts his innocence." "He disclaims the authority of Jesus."

To deny, as a claim; to refuse. "The payment was irregularly made, if not disclaimed."

(Law) To relinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office.

Synonyms: To disown; disavow; renounce; repudiate.

Disclaim v. t. To disavow or renounce all part, claim, or share.

Disclaim in, Disclaim from, to disown; to disavow. (Obs.) "Nature disclaims in thee."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Disclaim" Quotes from Famous Books

... Church in the symbolic sense of the term: for have they not reiterated, in a score of publications, for five and twenty years past, that they do not hold all the views of the former symbols; and does not the Platform itself explicitly disclaim any such idea, by publicly protesting against ...

— American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics • Samuel Simon Schmucker

... have the privilege of deliberating whether they will accept or disclaim an inheritance. But if a person who is entitled to disclaim interferes with the inheritance, or if one who has the privilege of deliberation accepts it, he no longer has the power of relinquishing ...

— The Institutes of Justinian • Caesar Flavius Justinian

... not unnaturally anxious to make their peace with the king, and to disclaim any complicity in the late outbreak. The Court of Aldermen met on the 11th May to consider how best to approach his majesty on so delicate a subject. It was decided to send a deputation to the lord ...

— London and the Kingdom - Volume I • Reginald R. Sharpe

... Cumberland; and their under-sect (which some one has maliciously called the 'Cockney School'), who are enthusiastical for the country because they live in London. It is to be observed, that the rustical founders are rather anxious to disclaim any connection with their metropolitan followers, whom they ungraciously review, and call cockneys, atheists, foolish fellows, bad writers, and other hard names, not less ungrateful than unjust. I can understand the pretensions of the aquatic gentlemen of Windermere to what Mr. B * ...

— Life of Lord Byron, With His Letters And Journals, Vol. 5 (of 6) • (Lord Byron) George Gordon Byron

... the traditionary fabric, and to maintain that nothing has been done which does not square with the intentions and complete the labors of former generations. The very individuals who conduct these changes disclaim all intention of innovation, and they had rather resort to absurd expedients than plead guilty to so great a crime. This spirit appertains more especially to the English lawyers; they seem indifferent to the real meaning of what they treat, and they direct all ...

— Democracy In America, Volume 1 (of 2) • Alexis de Tocqueville

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