0 present participle of disavow
1 to say that you know nothing about something, or that you have no responsibility for or connection with something:
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.$!
Similarly, parties disavowing certain coalition possibilities usually keep those promises as well.
Here, the artist protects himself from the pressures of contradictory forces - the im/possibility of art under commodification - by simultaneously avowing and disavowing his work's critical existence.
At the same time, he seemed to be disavowing any intention that he was going to alter the position of the shareholders.
The practical reason for disavowing intervention is the size of our foreign exchange reserves relative to the floods of money going through the foreign exchange markets every day.
Tactics of the group included filing liens against properties, disavowing state and federal authorities, and opening an embassy.
This is the type of person who, without disavowing his or her biological and social nature, does not avoid freedom and responsibility.
