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/dɪsklˈeɪm/ Listen

verb

Disclaim v. t. (past & past part. disclaimed; pres. part. disclaiming)

To renounce all claim to deny; ownership of, or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject. "He calls the gods to witness their offense; Disclaims the war, asserts his innocence." "He disclaims the authority of Jesus."

To deny, as a claim; to refuse. "The payment was irregularly made, if not disclaimed."

(Law) To relinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office.

Synonyms: To disown; disavow; renounce; repudiate.

Disclaim v. t. To disavow or renounce all part, claim, or share.

Disclaim in, Disclaim from, to disown; to disavow. (Obs.) "Nature disclaims in thee."

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Etymology of 'Disclaim'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Disclaim" Quotes from Famous Books

... have here matter sensational enough for the most exacting novelist; but we disclaim all effort to play upon the passions, or add another work of fiction to the mass of irreligious trash so powerful in the employ of the evil one for the seduction of youth. In the varied scenes of life there are many actions influenced by secret motives known only to ...

— Alvira: the Heroine of Vesuvius • A. J. O'Reilly

... company will disclaim liability for the accident, on the ground that he was yawning in ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, September 8th, 1920 • Various

... thus, I beg to disclaim all affected modesty, Lord Byron had already made the same distinction himself in the opinions which he expressed of the living poets; and I cannot but be aware that, for the praises which he afterwards bestowed ...

— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. II - With His Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore

... not give me up, of course, but she apologized, and assured Russia she had no evil intent. Still, anything that sets the diplomatists at work is frowned upon, and the man who does an act which his government is forced to disclaim ...

— A Rock in the Baltic • Robert Barr

... Between this sort of constraint and that gentler form of pressure which arises from the wish to increase an income sufficient for one's needs, but inadequate to one's desires, there is a considerable difference; and to repudiate the one is not to disclaim the other. It is, at any rate, certain that Sterne engaged at one time of his life in a rather speculative sort of farming, and we have it from himself in a passage in one of his letters, which may be jest, but reads more like earnest, that it was ...

— Sterne • H.D. Traill

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