Disavowment

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    disavowal uncountable, usually

    "January 17 1637, Henry Wotton, letter to the Right Worthy Provost and Professor Regius of Divinity in Cambridge For as touching the Tridentine History, His Holiness (ayes the Cardinal ) will not press you to any disavowment thereof, though you have an Epistle before the Original Edition"

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"January 17 1637, Henry Wotton, letter to the Right Worthy Provost and Professor Regius of Divinity in Cambridge For as touching the Tridentine History, His Holiness (ayes the Cardinal ) will not press you to any disavowment thereof, though you have an Epistle before the Original Edition"

Etymology

From disavow + -ment.

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