disavouch
English
editEtymology
editFrom dis- + avouch. Compare disavow.
Verb
editdisavouch (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.