0 past simple and past participle of disavow
1 to say that you know nothing about something, or that you have no responsibility for or connection with something:
Early modern writers who disavowed deliberate eloquence would, they argued, be taking an anti-rhetorical position.
Though disavowed, class and its inequalities influence the kinds of writing we study and the universities in which we teach.
What is being 'disavowed' through this process is the individuality of each singer, her power as a professional woman to control her own image.
Bureaucratic malfeasance is easily buried in the chaos or, if discovered, is disavowed ('finger pointing').
Taylor signed a revised timetable for disarmament but disavowed it on his return home, claiming signature under duress.
The ghost seems to have understood in her own way that the disavowed violence constituting the national state would come haunting from the future.
Boyle, for example, explicitly disavowed the "precepts of rhetoricians" but indirectly admitted the rhetorical nature of his own text.
Chomsky, for instance, has essentially disavowed it in advocating a more intricate connection to interfaces.
