disavowal
1.To make a formal retraction or disavowal of a previously held statement or belief.
2.To make a formal retraction or disavowal of(a statement or belief to which one has previously committed oneself).
3.This paper attempts to elaborate this tendency in a more positive way, arguing that its disavowal of the authority and metaphysical nature of traditional morals in fact engendered a new moral narrative notion, which indicated the end of the priority of morality in the novel narrative.
