Disclaim
Verb
Etymology: from Anglo French desclamer, which is analysable into dis- (= apart, away) and claimer (= to claim). The English claim is from Latin clamare (= to call, proclaim, declare aloud)
Pronunciation and accent: dIskleIm
Preterite tense: disclaimed
Preterite participle: disclaimed
present participle: disclaiming.
Intransitively:
Definition: to make a formal disclaimer; to renounce a claim. (Used in law)
Transitively:
First definition: to renounce a claim to; to deny any relation with or concern in. (Used in law)
Second definition: to make an informal disclaimer of; to disavow or deny any connection with; to renounce any claim to; to declare (something or someone) as not belonging to oneself.
It may be approximately translated by negar in Spanish; nier, in French; negare, in Italian
Antonym: to claim
Synonyms: to disown, deny, renounce
[The prince] took every occasion to disclaim any notion of possessing himself of the crown.
Thomas Moore (The History of the British Revolution…)
I modestly disclaimed any pretensions—and any desire—to be housed so handsomely. Sir John frowned in perplexity.
Anthony Hope (The Great Miss Driver)
Persons who lay claim to the good things of others are not rare; those who do not only disclaim their own, but even credit others with them, are among the very rarest.
Frances Kemble (Records of a Girlhood)
[…] when she was seated in her chair, the whole time disclaiming her intention of returning, he only pinched her cheek with a facetious smirk, and said, "By, by, little duck; come again soon […]"
Frances Burney (Cecilia)
I had compliments made to my person […] which [… occasioned] a singular opportunity of displaying my modesty, by disclaiming the merit of them, with a No, indeed!--I should be very vain, Ladies, if I thought so.
Samuel Richardson (Clarissa)
Perhaps I have said too much of this. I might, perhaps, with as much truth as most people, exculpate myself from the charge of being either of a greedy or mercenary disposition; but I am not, therefore, hypocrite enough to disclaim the ordinary motives.
Walter Scott (The Fortunes of Nigel)
An unequivocal declaration of a wish for peace, disclaiming all desire of conquest, might be issued without disgrace.
Charles Coote – Oliver Goldsmith (The History of England)
"Friend!" she exclaimed—"I have no friend—they have long since discarded us. A spectre arising from the dead were more welcome than I should be at the doors of those who have disclaimed us; and, if they were willing to restore their friendship to me now, I would despise it.
Walter Scott (The Fortunes of Nigel)
Third definition: a. To declare one’s refusal to acknowledge (something claimed by another); to deny. b. To declare one’s refusal to acknowledge the claim of authority of (someone)
Synonyms: to disallow, deny
[…] they disclaimed the authority of that court, as unlawfully constituted.
George Buchanan (The history of Scotland…)
They had disclaimed the authority of both Charles and James as tyrants.
John Anderson (A history of Edinburgh)
[…] though he disclaimed him as a philosopher, yet allowed him to be a man of a fine imagination.
Alexander Chalmers (The General Biographical Dictionary)
Derived from disclaim: disclaimer, disclaimant, disclamation, disclamatory
Other words derived from Latin clamare: reclaim (noun, verb), reclaimable, reclaimableness, reclaimably, reclaimant, reclaimed, reclaimer, reclaiming, reclaimless, reclaimment, reclamation, acclaim, acclaimable, acclaimer, acclaiming, acclamation, acclamatory, counterclaim (noun, verb), counter-claimant, declaim, declaiming, declaimant, declaimer, declamation, declamatory, declamatoriness, declamatorily, exclaim (noun, verb), exclaimer, exclaiming, exclamation, exclamative, exclamatively, exclamatory, exclamatorily, over-clamour, proclaim, proclaiming, proclaimingly, proclaimant, proclaimed, proclaimer, proclamation, proclamatory, quitclaim, clamor, conclamation
