Abnegate vs Disclaim - What's the difference?
abnegate | disclaim |
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 renounce all claim to; to deny ownership of or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject.
* Dryden
* Farmer
* 1901 , , (w, The Monkey's Paw)
*:"I was to say that Maw and Meggins disclaim all responsibility," continued the other. "They admit no liability at all, but in consideration of your son's services they wish to present you with a certain sum as compensation."
To deny, as a claim; to refuse.
* Milman
(legal) To relinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office.
As verbs the difference between abnegate and disclaim
is that abnegate is to deny (oneself something); to renounce or give up (a right, a power, a claim, a privilege, a convenience) while disclaim is to renounce all claim to; to deny ownership of or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject.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
disclaim
English
(wikipedia disclaim)Verb
(en verb)- He calls the gods to witness their offence; / Disclaims the war, asserts his innocence.
- He disclaims the authority of Jesus.
- The payment was irregularly made, if not disclaimed .
- (Burrill)
