单词 | to disavail oneself of |
释义 | > as lemmasto disavail oneself of 2. transitive (reflexive). to disavail oneself of: to deprive oneself of, to forgo; to do oneself out of. Cf. avail v.. ΚΠ 1958 Amer. Imago 15 175 Freud disavailed himself of what for Marx was his Sunday punch: the historical dialectic. 1971 E. Goffman Relations in Public iii. 87 To say goodbye to a loved-one from one's doorstep..is to disavail oneself of the opportunity to follow along with him. 1995 J. Narveson in M. Friedman & J. Narveson Polit. Correctness: For & Against 75 The theorist will have disavailed himself of the pleasure and instruction of reading the most challenging of all political theorists. 2008 C. Epstein Power of Words in Internat. Relations xi. 233 Japan, in relinquishing its reservation, has effectively disavailed itself of its sovereignty card at the IWC. < as lemmas |
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