0 to say that you know nothing about something, or that you have no responsibility for or connection with something:
1 to say that you know nothing about or have no responsibility for something:
He disavowed his earlier confession to the police.
He thoroughly disavowed every thing of the sort, and regretted that it was ever surmised that such were their motives.
The attempt to discredit sectarian practices asserted the professionalism of regular medicine by implicitly disavowing its curious past as well as asserting its clinical present.
Yet this effect of the legalistic context, like the photograph itself, also fades from view by disavowing its status as an effect.
These could be removed only by publicly disavowing further expansion.$!
Because of their own superior knowledge, they could reasonably disavow the scepticism of others when this conflicted with their own expert opinions.
Similarly, parties disavowing certain coalition possibilities usually keep those promises as well.
The author correctly disavows both implications in her comments, but based solely on the translation they are possible interpretations.
Musical analysts sometimes allow the same mystique to isolate music from culture, or to disavow the seriousness of musical studies that lack deep formal analysis.
