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/disclaim/

-) Verb.

-) Etymology: from Anglo French desclamer, which is analysed into dis- (apart, away) + claimer (to claim). The English CLAIM is from Latin clamare (to call, proclaim, declare aloud).

-) Pronunciation and accent: dɪskleɪm.

-) Preterite tense: disclaimed. Preterite participle: disclaimed.

-) Present participle: disclaiming.

-) Documented since 1300.

-) Intransitively: to make a formal disclaimer; to renounce a claim. (Used in law)

-) Transitively: -) 1. To renounce a claim to; to deny any relation with or concern in. (Used in law)

-) 2. 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.

-) Translation: negar in Spanish; nier, in French; negare, in Italian.

-) Antonym of disclaim: to claim.

-) Synonyms for “disclaim”: to disown, deny, renounce.

[The prince] took every occasion to disclaim any notion of possessing himself of the crown.

Thomas Moore… The British Revolution…

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.

Richardson… Clarissa 1748

… 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…"

Burney… Cecilia 1782

An unequivocal declaration of a wish for peace, disclaiming all desire of conquest, might be issued without disgrace.

C. Coote – O. Goldsmith… The History of England… 1819

"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.

Scott… The Fortunes of Nigel… 1822

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.

Scott… The Fortunes of Nigel… 1822

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.

F. Kemble… Records of a Girlhood… 1879

I modestly disclaimed any pretensions—and any desire—to be housed so handsomely. Sir John frowned in perplexity.

A. Hope… The Great Miss Driver… 1908

-) 3. -) 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.

G. Buchanan… The history of Scotland… 1690

… though he disclaimed him as a philosopher, yet allowed him to be a man of a fine imagination.

A. Chalmers… Biographical Dictionary… 1815

They had disclaimed the authority of both Charles and James as tyrants.

J. Anderson… A history of Edinburgh… 1856

-) Derived from the verb “disclaim”: disclaimer, disclaimant, disclamation, disclamatory.

-) 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.