Word: disowns
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...Reformation which modern Protestantism tends to neglect is the overarching sense of vocation, the Calvinist and Lutheran drive to participate in the whole of this actual world and to bring all of it under the judgment of God...What we imagine to be the Protestant tradition, the Puritan would disown as a flight from responsible exercise of power or influence...
...students were not disposed to accept the new rule without a fight. Almost as soon as it appeared in the fall of 1936, the CRIMSON charged that "the University has relapsed a long way toward the bigoted puritanism which it has been trying to disown for many years...
...think up something new or studying experience, they have one answer: 'No, that was not said by Marx,' or 'Engels said something else.' If Marx could rise from the grave and see such a follower (if this term is permissible), he undoubtedly would immediately disown...
...strike hands with those despicable advocates of human enslavement from the south who are currently writhing in the consequences of their own miscalculations, the party will be faced with a reverse far more serious than the recent one on November second. And it will not be enough to disown these misguided reactionaries. We must give active support to our new leaders. We must provide them with votes, with ideas, with grass roots missionary zeal...
...months, declared flatly: "No one is authorized by this union to say a vessel will not sail." He added sternly: "We will settle this beef in the usual manner -through the grievance machinery." The crew backed him up. At a meeting on board the ship they voted overwhelmingly to disown Avellar's ultimatum...