disclamation

[dis-kluh-mey-shuhn]

noun

1. the act of disclaiming; renunciation; disavowal.

Other Word Forms

• disclamatory adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of disclamation¹

1585–95; < Medieval Latin disclamāt ( us ) (past participle of disclamāre to disclaim, probably < Anglo-French disclaimer; -ate ¹ ) + -ion

Example Sentences

It may be guessed by some that I had a certain parish in my eye, and this makes it proper I should add a word of disclamation.

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Even while whispering of love to Charlotte Hamilton, on the banks of the Devon, or sighing out the affected sentimentalities of platonic or pastoral love in the ear of Clarinda, his thoughts wandered to her whom he had left bleaching her webs among the daisies on Mauchline braes—she had still his heart, and in spite of her own and her father’s disclamation, she was his wife.

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Thus, even Dryden's repeated disclamation of puns, points, and quibbles, and all the repentance of his more sober hours, was unable, so soon as he began to translate Ovid, to prevent his sliding back into the practice of that false wit with which his earlier productions are imbued.

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Having entered upon a course of disclamation, I should like to make a mild protest against a further charge that Georgian Poetry has merely encouraged a small clique of mutually indistinguishable poetasters to abound in their own and each other's sense or nonsense.

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But St. John's absenting himself from our solemn revels, so long before decreed, is flat mutiny and disclamation of allegiance.

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Related Words

• disavowal 
• renunciation