Disavow vs Abnegate - What's the difference?
disavow | abnegate | Related terms |
To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disown.
To deny; to show the contrary of; to disprove.
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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Disavow is a related term of abnegate.
As verbs the difference between disavow and abnegate
is that disavow is to refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disown while abnegate is to deny (oneself something); to renounce or give up (a right, a power, a claim, a privilege, a convenience) .disavow
English
Verb
(en verb)- He was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime.
- Because of her dissatisfaction, she now disavows the merits of fascism.
Quotations
* 1809 — *: These considerations not having restrained the British Government from disavowing the arrangement by virtue of which its orders in council were to be revoked, and the event authorizing the renewal of commercial intercourse having thus not taken place, it necessarily became a question of equal urgency and importance whether the act prohibiting that intercourse was not to be considered as remaining in legal force. * 1884 — *: In a still more obscure passage he now desires to disavow the Circular or aristocratic tendencies with which some critics have naturally credited him. * 1901 — , ch 12 *: It came to me as an absolute, for a moment an overwhelming shock. It seemed as though it wasn't a face, as though it must needs be a mask, a horror, a deformity, that would presently be disavowed or explained.Synonyms
* (to refuse to own) abjure, deny, disclaim, disown, reject * (to deny or show the contrary of) deny, disprove, impugn, reject, repudiateAntonyms
* (to refuse to own) accept, own up * (to deny or show the contrary of) accept, proveAnagrams
*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.