disinvite
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dis- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + invite.
Base: invite
Affixes: dis-
Inflected forms:
form: disinvites
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disinviting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disinvited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disinvited
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cancel or withdraw an invitation to (someone).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Near-synonym: uninvite (see notes)
[B]eing the next morning assured by the Prince himself that the Maske was to be put off till Sunday the ninth of January [1625], I was, upon his Highnesse intimation, sent to disinvite them all, which I performed with the French personally, and with the rest by letter; but on Saturday re-invited them for the next day.
[I]t is a task of ſo long ſtudy that a great part of a man's life vvould be ſpent in a vveariſome and hopeleſs endeavour to come to Faith by this tedious method; vvhich vvould both diſinvite to a purſuit; and even a diligent man may in likelihood die ere he could rationally embrace any Faith at all.
[M]y Lady vvould not revoke—my Lord vvould not ſubmit—the Royallies vvere to be diſinvited this morning; […]
[T]he chief of the police did not see his way to providing an escort sufficiently large to conduct a party some five and twenty strong, […] So the project was abandoned, and the "disinvited" guests assembled on the upper deck of their steamer to console themselves by viewing the arrival and reception of the Khedive from that excellent vantage-ground.
[T]his amendment fails to meet the criteria of sound and conservative legislation. First, it disinvites and discourages local initiative and secondly, without benefit of proper hearings on such a complex question, it changes the entire experience of Federal Indian law in one fell swoop.
Edwina Gately, a lay missionary who works with prostitutes in Chicago, was recently "disinvited" from delivering homilies at two parishes after the pastors received conservative complaints.
[Florida state senator John] Grant believes [Greg] Louganis is coming to the Tampa campus to "promote homosexuality". It apparently didn't matter to Grant that Louganis, an HIV-positive gay man, is also the first male diver to win four Olympic gold medals. […] He quickly ran into a wall of opposition from university officials, who said they had no intention of disinviting Louganis.
Tech people rarely, if ever, have a sense of the broader applications and policy implications of the projects to which they're assigned. And the work that consumes them tends to require such specialized knowledge that to bring it up at a barbecue would get them disinvited from the next one, because nobody cared.
Well-meaning people have advised me that voicing this opinion [opposition to the killing of civilians in Gaza by Israel] could lead to being disinvited from literary events and festivals, and that my career in Germany – the source of my livelihood for the last two years – might be over.
The organisers of the Berlin international film festival have disinvited five politicians from the far-right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) from next week’s opening gala in the German capital, citing recent reports on the AfD’s alleged mass deportation plans.
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