Mr. Gallatin took the occasion todisavow all idea of encouraging resistance to it.
The Ministry may probably, and I think will, disavow the late act of their officer; but there are insults and injuries for which neither an individual nor a nation can accept an apology.
I think he ought to correct the public mind on this subject, and, as a Church; disavow all connection with politics.
Russia, therefore, might disavowthe armistice and arrive in time to defend Vienna, the occupation of which was so important to the French army.
It was in vain that Frederick William and Hardenberg affected todisavow the general as a traitor; Napoleon divined the national character of York's act, and laid his account for a war against the combined forces of Prussia and Russia.
He is of the opinion that the society owes it to justice, to example, and to its own dignity, to publicly disavow all responsibility for the anti-social doctrines contained in this publication.
The phrase betrays Swift's scornful self-mockery; that inverted hypocrisy which led him to call his motives by their worst names, and to disavow what he might have been sorry to see denied by others.
He is no longer proclaiming a policy, but endeavouring to disavow the policy attributed to his party.
The Memoir of du Coudray attests, on the other hand, that the minister put you forward that he might disavow you if he desired.
He dared not publicly disavow responsibility for the act, and what would be the current of public opinion outside of France no man could divine.
Spirituals were obliged to disavow all connection with Dolcinism.
Therefore, we would disavow any words or action promoted by the spirit of anti-Semitism, which emanate from sources that purport to be Christian.
As long as the Christians fail to disavow their Jewish source and their Jewishness they themselves will be tainted by its anti-natural influence.
Take care not to disavow the people," answered another, "for fear they in turn should disavow you.
It would have been more dignified to openly disavow the acts of the Committee, and then propose something better themselves.
They hoped that intimidation and terrorism would induce even the very Magyars to disavow their language and birth.
No man can disavow it, no political party can disavow it.
Of course I could n't disavow the statement, and have been reduced to the pleasant alternative of settling on my daughter about five baronies and twenty townlands of Tipperary, with no inconsiderable share of villages and hamlets.
This leaves Congress at full liberty to avow or disavow whatever they think proper.
This I thought it advisable to do, not only because it was the strict truth, but that Congress might be more at liberty, if they should judge it expedient, to disavow the whole.
I had an idea that the whole scene had been arranged with the intent that I should deliver myself up to brutal pleasure, while the proud and foolish woman would be free to disavow all participation in the fact.
They did so and sat beside me, thinking, perhaps, that they would be able to, disavow everything on the score of the bandage.
Then, thinking over the orders I gave him, he came to the conclusion that on finding myself diseased afterwards I was disgusted, and being able to disavow my presence I had done so for the sake of revenge.
This is the empiric stage, which no existing science, however proud in its attained rationality, can disavow as its own progenitor.
And no science, however proud in its present security of experimental assurance, can disavow a scholastic ancestor.
Those gods will disavow their worship and will become their enemies.
Or do they not recognise their apostle; and therefore disavow him?
He felt his condition, and his powerful genius did not disavow it.
But the Archbishop complained to the King, and altogether stood his ground so firmly, that in the end the Jesuits were glad to give way, disavow the book, and arrange the reconciliation which took place.
She had been intimate with Madame de Maintenon during the whole of her residence at Paris; but Madame de Maintenon, although not daring to disavow this friendship, did not like to hear her spoken about.
And if I disavow the Socialism of condescension, so also do I disavow the Socialism of revolt.
So it is I disavow and deplore the whole spirit of class-war Socialism with its doctrine of hate, its envious assault upon the leisure and freedom of the wealthy.
What good, indeed, would it do to tell this one that the condemnation of his book was a foregone conclusion, and that his only prudent course would be to disavow it?
As he had said to Monsignor Fornaro, could the Pope disavow him?
When an author was as anxious todisavow the charge of writing for money as an author at the present day is to claim his reward, I cannot, for my part, simply set him down as silly.
We have changed all this, and the greatest modern authors are less apt to disavow a desire for pay, than to complain that their pay is insufficient.
You disavow it; that is enough for me, and I for ever dismiss the idea.
The community is to be congratulated on having a few public-spirited men left in days when there are wealthy German Jews in our midst who not only disavow Judaism, but refuse to support its institutions.
I do not fear the charge of Atheism; nor should I even disavow it, in reference to any definition of the Supreme which he, or his order, would be likely to frame.
Let us disavow and discountenance such people, cherishing the unswerving faith that what is good and true in both our arguments will be preserved for the benefit of humanity, while all that is bad or false will disappear.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disavow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
