Definition of Disqualifying

1. Adjective. Depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified. "Certain disabling restrictions disqualified him for citizenship"

Exact synonyms: Disabling
Antonyms: Enabling

Definition of Disqualifying

1. Verb. (third-person singular of disqualify) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Disqualifying

1. disqualify [v] - See also: disqualify

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disqualifying

disputeless
disputer
disputers
disputes
disputing
disputison
disputisons
disqualifiable
disqualification
disqualifications
disqualified
disqualifier
disqualifiers
disqualifies
disqualify
disqualifying
disquantifying
disquantitied
disquantities
disquantity
disquantitying
disquiet
disquieted
disquieter
disquieters
disquietful
disquieting
disquietingly
disquietive
disquietly

Literary usage of Disqualifying

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The U. S. Coal Industry, 1970-1990: Two Decades of Change (1992)
"Cardiovascular • Cardiovascular defects can be disqualifying because they ... Conditions that should be disqualifying are: —Cyanotic heart disease; ..."

2. Gun Controls: Options for Improving the National Instant Criminal Background edited by Laurie E. Ekstrand, Danny R. Burton (2000)
"As shown in table HI below, BJS reported that the extent of state and local access to data differed somewhat based on the particular disqualifying factor: ..."

3. Legal Medicine by Gilbert Holland Stewart (1910)
"Disqualifying diseases. 38. Doubtful sex. 36. Impotence and sterility. 39. ... Disqualifying Diseases. III. Impotence and Steril- ity. ; IV. Doubtful Sex. ..."

4. Lex Parliamentaria Americana: Elements of the Law and Practice of by Luther Stearns Cushing (1874)
"ACCEPTANCE op Disqualifying OB INCOMPATIBLE OFFICES. 478. The distinction has already been explained between those offices or employments, the possession of ..."

5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1887)
"The clause of the Constitution disqualifying persons convicted ... Neither the Constitution nor the statute limits the disqualifying power to any particular ..."

6. The General Principles of the Law of Evidence: In Their Application to the by Frank Sumner Rice (1894)
"General Abrogation of Former Disqualifying Laws. ... "This section abolishes a relic of the old rules disqualifying witnesses, which is contrary to the ..."

7. The Speeches of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox, in the House of by Charles James Fox (1815)
"TN a committee on the state of the nation, Mr. Dowdeswell •*• moved, " That a bill might be brought in for disqualifying certain Officers in the Revenues ..."

8. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"He proposed the introduction of a bill disqualifying those members of the ' pension parliament ' who had received bribes from the court for serving in ..."

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