Synonyms for disavowal:
noun relinquishment
noun dismissal, refusal of belief in
noun abandonment
noun repudiation
noun contradiction, denial
noun contradiction
noun retraction
noun abdication
noun retraction
noun denial of responsibility; unwillingness
noun abdication
noun abandonment, rejection
noun rejection
noun denial
noun retraction
noun withdrawal
noun recantation
noun denial
noun refusal
noun removal; retraction
Examples of uses:
I perceive wisdom in the words of my implant, William Boone. He urges me to make a public disavowal.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
Hitchcock manipulates here in a very refined way the logic of so-called fetishist disavowal.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
Coming as it did in the wake of the Penguin update, many people saw disavowal as an easy way to remove spammy backlinks from their site’s profile, encouraging the revised algorithm to look more kindly upon their sites.
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Title: Should you use Google’s updated Disavow Links tool?, author: Edward Coram James, url: https://www.searchenginewatch.com/2021/01/06/should-you-use-googles-updated-disavow-links-tool/
Google itself pointed out in its Help Center at the time that “most sites will not need to use this tool”, but that didn’t stop many from wantonly adding all manner of backlinks to their lists for disavowal.
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Title: Should you use Google’s updated Disavow Links tool?, author: Edward Coram James, url: https://www.searchenginewatch.com/2021/01/06/should-you-use-googles-updated-disavow-links-tool/
He, however, afterward retracted this disavowal, and owned Demaratus as his son.
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Title: Xerxes, author: Jacob Abbott, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25351/25351-h/25351-h.htm
Not being able to obtain such a disavowal, he pretended that he had actually obtained it.
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Title: The War Upon Religion, author: Rev. Francis A. Cunningham, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38391/38391-h/38391-h.htm
These were followed by a partial and temporary suspension only, without any disavowal of the principle.
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Title: A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, author: Edited by James D. Richardson, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10893/10893-h/10893-h.htm
No, sir, the want of powers on the part of Mr. Erskine is not the true cause of the disavowal.
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Title: Abridgement of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856 (4 of 16 vol.), author: Various, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/47289/47289-h/47289-h.htm
Mr. Jackson, though expressly enumerating the only causes which led to a disavowal, does not suggest this.
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Title: Abridgement of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856 (4 of 16 vol.), author: Various, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/47289/47289-h/47289-h.htm
Why is there so much disavowal and abnegation in your hearts?
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Title: Prophets of Dissent, author: Otto Heller, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36111/36111-h/36111-h.htm
