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Disclaimer vs Relinquish - What's the difference?

disclaimer | relinquish |

As a noun disclaimer

is one who disclaims, disowns, or renounces.

As a verb relinquish is

to give up, abandon or retire from something.

disclaimer

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(wikipedia disclaimer) (en noun)
  • One who disclaims, disowns, or renounces.
  • A public disavowal, as of pretensions, claims, opinions, and the like.
  • (legal) A denial, disavowal, or renunciation, as of a title, claim, interest, estate, or trust; relinquishment or waiver of an interest or estate.
  • relinquish

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To give up, abandon or retire from something.
  • to relinquish a title
    to relinquish property
    to relinquish rights
    to relinquish citizenship or nationality
  • To let go (free, away), physically release.
  • To metaphorically surrender, yield control or possession.
  • * 2011 , Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/15210221.stm]
  • But it was the most fleeting of false dawns. Dmitri Yachvilli slotted a penalty from distance after Flood failed to release his man on the deck, and France took a grip they would never relinquish .
  • To accept to give up, withdraw etc.
  • ''The delegations saved the negotiations by relinquishing their incompatible claims to sole jurisdiction

    Derived terms

    * (l)