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disclaim


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Definition:
1. to denounce or reject ownership of; to disown; to "wash one's hands of"
2. [law] to decline accepting a claim;

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  Here I disclaim all my paternal care,
  Propinquity and property of blood,
  And as a stranger to my heart and me
  Hold thee from this for ever.

William Shakespeare. King Lear
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  Sir, in this audience,
  Let my disclaiming from a purpos'd evil
  Free me so far in your most generous thoughts
  That I have shot my arrow o'er the house
  And hurt my brother.

William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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I made an effort, therefore, to remedy the evil, and disclaim all personal application of the remark by a hasty, ill-expressed reply,

Anne Brontë. Agnes Grey (1847)
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