Renouncement vs Disavowal - What's the difference?
renouncement | disavowal | Related terms |
The act of renouncing.
A denial of knowledge, relationship, and/or responsibility towards something (or someone).
* 1809 —
Renouncement is a related term of disavowal.
As nouns the difference between renouncement and disavowal
is that renouncement is the act of renouncing while disavowal is a denial of knowledge, relationship, and/or responsibility towards something (or someone).renouncement
English
Noun
(en noun)- His renouncement of his previous position, once it had proven unpopular, did not help his candidacy.
disavowal
English
Noun
(en noun)- Whatever pleas may be urged for a disavowal of engagements formed by diplomatic functionaries in cases where by the terms of the engagements a mutual ratification is reserved, or where notice at the time may have been given of a departure from instructions, or in extraordinary cases essentially violating the principles of equity, a disavowal could not have been apprehended in a case where no such notice or violation existed, where no such ratification was reserved, and more especially where, as is now in proof, an engagement to be executed without any such ratification was contemplated by the instructions given, and where it had with good faith been carried into immediate execution on the part of the United nations.
