The difference between Disclaim and Renounce

When used as verbs, disclaim means to renounce all claim to, whereas renounce means to give up, resign, surrender, atsake.


Renounce is also noun with the meaning: an act of renouncing.

check bellow for the other definitions of Disclaim and Renounce

  1. Disclaim as a verb:

    To renounce all claim to; to deny ownership of or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject.

  2. Disclaim as a verb:

    To deny, as a claim; to refuse.

  3. Disclaim as a verb (legal):

    To relinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Burrill"

  1. Renounce as a noun (card games):

    An act of renouncing.

  1. Renounce as a verb (transitive):

    To give up, resign, surrender, atsake.

    Examples:

    "to renounce a title to land or to a throne"

  2. Renounce as a verb (transitive):

    To cast off, repudiate.

  3. Renounce as a verb (transitive):

    To decline further association with someone or something, disown.

  4. Renounce as a verb (transitive):

    To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.

  5. Renounce as a verb (intransitive):

    To make a renunciation of something.

  6. Renounce as a verb (intransitive):

    To surrender formally some right or trust.

  7. Renounce as a verb (intransitive, card games):

    To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.

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