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Abnegate vs Disallow - What's the difference?

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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 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:
  • 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.
  • * 1875 January, Brownson's Quarterly Review , page 20:
  • All ancient and modern histories of nations abnegate God.
  • To relinquish; to surrender; to abjure.
  • Derived terms

    * abnegator

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    disallow

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To refuse to allow
  • The prisoners were disallowed to contact with a lawyer.
  • To reject as invalid, untrue, or improper
  • The goal was disallowed because the player was offside.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=June 19 , author=Phil McNulty , title=England 1-0 Ukraine , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=England will regard it as a measure of justice for Frank Lampard's disallowed goal against Germany in Bloemfontein at the 2010 World Cup - but it was also an illustration of how they rode their luck for long periods in front of a predictably partisan home crowd.}}

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