different between renounce vs disallow

English

Etymology

From Old French renoncier (French renoncer), from Latin renuntiare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???na?ns/
• Rhymes: -a?ns

Noun

renounce (plural renounces)

1. (card games) An act of renouncing.

Related terms

• renunciation

Verb

renounce (third-person singular simple present renounces, present participle renouncing, simple past and past participle renounced)

1. (transitive) To give up, resign, surrender, atsake.

2. (transitive) To cast off, repudiate.
3. (transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.

   Synonyms: disown, repudiate; see also Thesaurus:repudiate

4. (transitive) To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
5. (intransitive) To make a renunciation of something.
6. (intransitive) To surrender formally some right or trust.
   • 1870 William Dougal Christie, Memoir of John Dryden

     Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced, his son Charles administered on June 10.

7. (intransitive, card games) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.

Synonyms

• forsay
• forswear

Derived terms

• renounceable
• renouncement
• renouncer

Related terms

• announce
• denounce
• pronounce

Translations

References

• renounce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

From Middle English disallowen, desallowen, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman desalouer, Old French desalöer; synchronically analyzable as dis- +? allow.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?s??la?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Verb

disallow (third-person singular simple present disallows, present participle disallowing, simple past and past participle disallowed)

1. To refuse to allow

   The prisoners were disallowed to contact with a lawyer.

2. To reject as invalid, untrue, or improper

   The goal was disallowed because the player was offside.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:prohibit

Related terms

• disallowance

Translations