disallow

Meaning

Verb

To refuse to allow
To reject as invalid, untrue, or improper

Origin

From Middle English disallowen, desallowen, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman desalouer, Old French desalöer; synchronically analyzable as dis- + allow.

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