different between disavowal vs disclaimer

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [d?s??va?(?)?]
• Rhymes: -a??l

Noun

disavowal (plural disavowals)

1. A denial of knowledge, relationship, and/or responsibility towards something (or someone).
   • 1809 — James Madison, First State of the Union address

     Whatever pleas may be urged for a disavowal of engagements formed by diplomatic functionaries in cases where by the terms of the engagements a mutual ratification is reserved, or where notice at the time may have been given of a departure from instructions, or in extraordinary cases essentially violating the principles of equity, a disavowal could not have been apprehended in a case where no such notice or violation existed, where no such ratification was reserved, and more especially where, as is now in proof, an engagement to be executed without any such ratification was contemplated by the instructions given, and where it had with good faith been carried into immediate execution on the part of the United nations.

Related terms

• disavow
• disavowed

Translations

English

Etymology

Partly from Middle English discleymer, from Anglo-Norman desclamer; and partly from disclaim +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?s?kle?m.?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?s?kle?m.?/
• Hyphenation: dis?claim?er
• Rhymes: -e?m?(r)

Noun

disclaimer (plural disclaimers)

1. One who disclaims, disowns, or renounces.
2. A public disavowal, as of responsibility, pretensions, claims, opinions, etc.
3. (law) A denial, disavowal, or renunciation, as of a title, claim, interest, estate, or trust; relinquishment or waiver of an interest or estate.
4. (proscribed) A disclosure of an interest, relationship, or the like.
   • 2012, Anant Rangaswami, "No need for regulation in media – it’s happening by itself", Firstpost, May 10, 2012

     It interviewed, among others, the director of Vasant Valley School, owned by the same family that part-owns Mail Today. No disclaimer was carried stating as much.

   • 2018, Hallie Detrick, "What We Know About Sean Hannity's Shell Companies and Why It Matters", Fortune, April 23

     Though the fact that the two men do business together was disclosed on air, a recent op-ed penned by Lako and published on the Hannity show’s website had no such disclaimer.

Usage notes

• The use in the sense of a disclosure rather than a disavowal is a recent extension in meaning that disregards the etymology and may be considered incorrect usage.

Translations

Verb

disclaimer (third-person singular simple present disclaimers, present participle disclaimering, simple past and past participle disclaimered)

1. (transitive, informal) To disclaim or disavow, as by appending a legal disclaimer.
   • 2005, Raven Kaldera, Pagan Polyamory: Becoming a Tribe of Hearts (page 229)

     When you can hear your lover say that painful thing straight up, without a lot of disclaimering or softening to make sure that your feelings will be hurt as little as possible, […]

   • 2015, Evan Butler, Guardians of Life (page 45)

     Now that I have disclaimered myself, I can tell you the story of how one of the guards smoked Salvia divinorum and tripped balls for fifteen minutes […]

References

• disclaimer at OneLook Dictionary Search

Old French

Verb

disclaimer

1. Alternative form of desclamer

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ms, *-mt are modified to ns, nt. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.