Word Meanings - DISAFFIRMATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of disaffirming; negation; refutation.

Related words: (words related to DISAFFIRMATION)

• REFUTATION
  The act or process of refuting or disproving, or the state of being refuted; proof of falsehood or error; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine, or theory, by argument or countervailing proof. Same of his blunders seem rather
• DISAFFIRMANCE
  Overthrow or annulment by the decision of a superior tribunal; as, disaffirmance of judgment. (more info) 1. The act of disaffirming; denial; negation.
• NEGATION
  Description or definition by denial, exclusion, or exception; statement of what a thing is not, or has not, from which may be inferred what it is or has. (more info) not + the root of aio I say; cf. Gr. ah to say; cf. F. négation. See 1. The act
• DISAFFIRM
  To refuse to confirm; to annul, as a judicial decision, by a contrary judgment of a superior tribunal. (more info) 1. To assert the contrary of; to contradict; to deny; -- said of that which has been asserted.
• DISAFFIRMATION
  The act of disaffirming; negation; refutation.
• DENEGATION
  Denial.
• SELF-ABNEGATION
  Self-denial; self-renunciation; self-sacrifice.
• ABNEGATION
  a denial; a renunciation. With abnegation of God, of his honor, and of religion, they may retain the friendship of the court. Knox.
• RENEGATION
  A denial. "Absolute renegation of Christ." Milman.