Word Meanings - DISALLOWANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of disallowing; refusal to admit or permit; rejection. Syn. -- Disapprobation; prohibition; condemnation; censure; rejection.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISALLOWANCE)

• Abnegation
• Denial
• disallowance
• renunciation
• abjuration
• stint
• abstinence
• Prohibition
• Interdiction
• inhibition
• interdict
• embargo

Related words: (words related to DISALLOWANCE)

• STINTLESS
  Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston.
• INTERDICT
  To lay under an interdict; to cut off from the enjoyment of religious privileges, as a city, a church, an individual. An archbishop may not only excommunicate and interdict his suffragans, but his vicar general may do the same. Ayliffe. (more info)
• RENUNCIATION
  Formal declination to take out letters of administration, or to assume an office, privilege, or right. Syn. -- Renouncement; disownment; disavowal; disavowment; disclaimer; rejection; abjuration; recantation; denial; abandonment; relinquishment.
• INHIBITION
  A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes,
• INTERDICTION
  The act of interdicting; prohibition; prohibiting decree; curse; interdict. The truest issue of thy throne By his own interdiction stands accurst. Shak.
• STINTEDNESS
  The state of being stinted.
• PROHIBITION
  1. The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict. The law of God, in the ten commandments, consists mostly of prohibitions. Tillotson. 2. Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors
• DENIAL
  1. The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation. You ought to converse with so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. A refusal to admit the truth
• ABNEGATION
  a denial; a renunciation. With abnegation of God, of his honor, and of religion, they may retain the friendship of the court. Knox.
• EMBARGO
  An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail. Note: If the embargo is laid on an enemy's ships, it is called a hostile embargo; if on
• INTERDICTIVE
  Having the power to prohibit; as, an interdictive sentence. Milton.
• DISALLOWANCE
  The act of disallowing; refusal to admit or permit; rejection. Syn. -- Disapprobation; prohibition; condemnation; censure; rejection.
• ABSTINENCE
  1. The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from
• INTERDICTORY
  Belonging to an interdiction; prohibitory.
• STINT
  Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India (Tringa minuta), etc. Called also pume. A phalarope.
• ABJURATION
  1. The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return. 2. A solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of heresy. Oath
• STINTER
  One who, or that which, stints.
• PROHIBITIONIST
  1. One who favors prohibitory duties on foreign goods in commerce; a protectionist. 2. One who favors the prohibition of the sale (or of the sale and manufacture) of alcoholic liquors as beverages.
• STINTANCE
  Restraint; stoppage.
• SELF-RENUNCIATION
  The act of renouncing, or setting aside, one's own wishes, claims, etc.; self-sacrifice.
• ABRENUNCIATION
  Absolute renunciation or repudiation. An abrenunciation of that truth which he so long had professed, and still believed. Fuller.
• PRENUNCIATION
  The act of announcing or proclaiming beforehand.
• INABSTINENCE
  Want of abstinence; indulgence. "The inabstinence of Eve." Milton.
• SELF-ABNEGATION
  Self-denial; self-renunciation; self-sacrifice.
• SELF-DENIAL
  The denial of one's self; forbearing to gratify one's own desires; self-sacrifice.