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What is a disavowal?

What is a disavowal? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A denial of knowledge, relationship, and/or responsibility towards something (or someone).
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Some parents refuse to acknowledge such sons as their progeny, and place adverts in newspapers proclaiming disavowal.
Yet, in its disavowal of pure estheticism and visual idealization, Lee's work seems more American than Korean.
His disavowal notwithstanding, he sounded more concerned about the rights of polygamists than about the plight of child brides.
He persisted in asking that his faults should be pardoned, yet he uttered not any disavowal of his beliefs.
And Mitt Romney's disavowal of using Wright doesn't necessarily mean that we won't be seeing the reverend's face either.
Was Renoir's disavowal of his involvement in politics in the United States a matter of forgetfulness?

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