Abnegate vs Disallow - What's the difference?
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To deny (oneself something); to renounce or give up (a right, a power, a claim, a privilege, a convenience).
* 1898 December 10, Asbell v. State'', reported in ''The Pacific Reporter , volume 55, page 339:
* 1875 January, Brownson's Quarterly Review , page 20:
To relinquish; to surrender; to abjure.
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To refuse to allow
To reject as invalid, untrue, or improper
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As verbs the difference between abnegate and disallow
is that abnegate is to deny (oneself something); to renounce or give up (a right, a power, a claim, a privilege, a convenience) while disallow is to refuse to allow.abnegate
English
Verb
(abnegat)- To compel a state, upon theories of doubtful statutory interpretation, to appear as defendant suitor in its own courts, and to litigate with private parties as to whether it had abnegated its sovereignty of exemption, would be intolerable.
- All ancient and modern histories of nations abnegate God.
Derived terms
* abnegatorReferences
disallow
English
Verb
(en verb)- The prisoners were disallowed to contact with a lawyer.
- The goal was disallowed because the player was offside.
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