disclaimer

Meanings

Noun

• One who disclaims, disowns, or renounces.
• A public disavowal, as of responsibility, pretensions, claims, opinions, etc.
• A denial, disavowal, or renunciation, as of a title, claim, interest, estate, or trust; relinquishment or waiver of an interest or estate.
• A disclosure of an interest, relationship, or the like.

Verb

• To disclaim or disavow, as by appending a legal disclaimer.

Origin

• Partly from Middle English discleymer, from Anglo-Norman desclamer; and partly from disclaim + -er.