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disclaim
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► definition
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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