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Definition of Disinherited
1. Adjective. Deprived of your rightful heritage.
Definition of Disinherited
1. Verb. (past of disinherit) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disinherited
1. disinherit [v] - See also: disinherit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disinherited
Literary usage of Disinherited
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Political History of England by William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole (1905)
"We are sons of magnates of this land," declared the disinherited to Mar. ...
The disinherited, though few in number, were well trained in warfare, ..."
2. The History of England from the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of by Thomas Frederick Tout (1905)
"We are sons of magnates of this land," declared the disinherited to Mar. ...
The disinherited, though few in number, were well trained in warfare, ..."
3. Social Silhouettes by George William Erskine Russell (1906)
"CHAPTER XXXVI THE disinherited KNIGHT "THE device on his shield was a young oak
tree pulled up by the roots, with the Spanish word Desdichado, ..."
4. Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott (1895)
"... The disinherited Knight was filled with astonishment, no less at the generosity
of Rebecca, by which, however, he resolved he would not profit, ..."
5. The Political History of England by William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole (1905)
"... hands of the rebels,1 and then arranged a peace upon terms which secured
Gloucester's chief object of procuring better conditions for the disinherited. ..."
6. Commentaries on the Roman-Dutch Law by Simon van Leeuwen (1820)
"... omitted to institute them Heirs, or have unjustly disinherited them. Of Parents
not being instituted Heirs by their Children. Of Brothers and . ..."
7. History of Scotland [1149-1603] by Patrick Fraser Tytler (1845)
"The ancestors of Lord Ferrers, one of these disinherited lords, were settled in
Scotland as far back as 1288. ..."
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