disavouch

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ avouch. Compare disavow.

Verb

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

  1. (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

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

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