disallowancen.
/ˌdɪsəˈlaʊəns/, U.S. /ˌdɪsəˈlaʊəns/ 1.
a. The action of disallowing something (in various senses of disallow v.); refusal to sanction, accept, or permit something; disapproval, rejection, prohibition. Frequently with of.
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society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [noun] > refusal of permission
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1566 Abp. M. Parker & Bp. E. Grindal Let. 20 Mar. in Abp. M. Parker Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 267 We have consulted how to proceed, whereby we may have your allowance or disallowance.
1588 R. Bancroft Serm. at Paules Crosse 18 Why doth mans allowance or disallowance make a matter Antichristian or not Antichristian?
1607 T. Rogers Faith, Doctr., & Relig. 114 (margin) The approbation or disallowance of a general Assembly..should be a matter, and cause spirituall.
1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. §14. 211 Centurions..are commended..without any reproofe or dis-allowance of their warlike profession.
1733 D. Neal Hist. Puritans II. 559 They declare their disallowance of all seditious libels.
1774 W. Bollan Rights Eng. Colonies Established in Amer. 46 Their laws..to be transmited to the king in council for approbation or disallowance.
1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece II. i. xxi. 180 This disallowance of the historical personality of Homer.
1883 A. H. De Colyar Rep. County Courts Circuits 45 & 46 Pref. p. xi The Rules of the Supreme Court..come into operation on the 24th October next, subject to disallowance by Parliament.
1947 Michigan Law Rev. 46 257 The South Dakota Supreme Court affirmed judgment for claimant although his action was brought more than six months after disallowance of the claim.
2014 Minnesota Lawyer (Nexis) 29 May This case involved the disallowance of a charitable deduction.
b. As a count noun. An act or instance of disallowing something; a thing which is or has been disallowed; esp. a sum not recognized in an account or an item for which no credit or recompense is allowed (cf. allowance n. 1a).
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1700 J. Wyeth Answer to Let. Dr Bray 9 The Doctor's Design of Imposing, is quite contrary..to the Will of this Government, as appears in the Disallowances before-mentioned.
1734 J. Bennett Memorial Diffic., Hardships & Perplexities 24 To show how, and by what Articles, Allowances and Disallowances, this general Balance is struck.
1784 Parl. Reg. 1781–96 XII. 139 By these disallowances, he reduced the balance of quick stock at Madras 2,078,078l. to little more than 500,000l.
1822 J. Finlay Lett. to Irish Govt. 20 How must these, and all the other disallowances which have now accumulated from year to year, be paid?
1861 R. E. Warwick Poor Laws as they Are 10 There were 4,880 orders issued on auditor's disallowances.
1906 Amer. Hist. Rev. 11 825 Even in some cases where the laws have all been printed in usable collections, the records of disallowances by the English crown are fatally incomplete.
1988 Financial Times 25 Mar. 25/1 After taking into account..a qualifying loan for buying shares in an employee-controlled company (offset by the car, fuel, and private health disallowances).
2002 Economica 69 651 About half of all disallowances were on the grounds of not genuinely seeking work.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > an irregularity
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1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 16 The..allowances and disallowances in the composition of foure parts.
1655 Campion's Art of composing Musick in Parts in J. Playford Introd. Skill Musick ii. 39 The last disallowance..is when the upper part stands, and the lower part falls from a lesser third to a fift.
?1737 W. Tans'ur Compl. Melody (ed. 3) in Wks. i. 52 If you make a Disorder in your natural Movements, by moving the Bass by Degrees, and the upper-Part by Leaps..then the Consecution will soon Generate a Disallowance.
1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music III. 527 An excellent composition might now be produced, merely from ancient disallowances.
1821 Q. Musical Mag. & Rev. 3 108 The note C in the tenor..does not ascend till the A in the treble has been heard, and consequently there is no such disallowance.
1854 J. W. Moore Compl. Cycl. Music Disallowance, A term applied to any anomalous formation, or succession of chords. Two succeeding eighths, or two consecutive perfect fifths, in the same direction, constitute a disallowance.
1896 Musical Herald Dec. 378/2 His ear is as trustworthy a guide as all the allowances and disallowances in Macfarren's ‘Rudiments’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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