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Disown   /dɪsˈoʊn/   Listen
Disown

verb
(past & past part. disowned; pres. part. disowning)
1.
Prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting.  Synonym: disinherit.  Antonym: bequeath.
2.
Cast off.  Synonyms: renounce, repudiate.  "The parents repudiated their son"



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"Disown" Quotes from Famous Books



... sort, sor. I disown England; I disowned her when I came out here to throw meself into the arrums of the brave, suffering, pathriotic race around me, and placed ...
— Charge! - A Story of Briton and Boer • George Manville Fenn

... was as white as Fanny's and her voice rang out like a silver bell, "Seth Curtis, you will apologize, ask forgiveness of Fanny Foster, who is my friend and an old schoolmate, or before God and these people I will disown you as my husband and the father of my children. Fanny Foster never had an apple or a goody in her lunch in the old school days that she didn't share it with somebody. She has never had a dollar or a joy that she hasn't divided. No one in Green Valley ever had ...
— Green Valley • Katharine Reynolds

... air, or use the same light, with me; but get an atmosphere and a sun of your own! I'll strip you of your commission; I'll lodge a five-and-threepence in the hands of trustees, and you shall live on the interest! I'll disown you, I'll disinherit you! I'll never call ...
— Standard Selections • Various

... woman at all," here Rumple waved the old jacket with a tragic air. "The fault lies with me, and you had all better know about it at once, and if you decide to disown me for the future, I can't complain, for I deserve to be sent to Coventry ...
— The Adventurous Seven - Their Hazardous Undertaking • Bessie Marchant

... was traditional in the radical Emersonian circles in which pragmatism sprang up. It is one of the approaches to the movement; yet we may safely regard the ancestral transcendentalism of the pragmatists as something which they have turned their back upon, and mean to disown. It is destined to play no part in the ultimate result of pragmatism. This ultimate result promises to be, on the contrary, a direct materialistic sort of realism. This alone is congruous with the scientific affinities of the school and its ...
— Winds Of Doctrine - Studies in Contemporary Opinion • George Santayana


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