disavouch

English edit

Etymology edit

From dis- +‎ avouch. Compare disavow.

Verb edit

disavouch (third-person singular simple present disavouches, present participle disavouching, simple past and past participle disavouched)

(transitive) To disavow.
- 1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
  And thereupon they flatly disavouch
  Te yield him more Obedience

References edit

“disavouch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.