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Definition of Disown

1. Verb. Prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting.

Definition of Disown

1. v. t. To refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one's self; to disavow or deny, as connected with one's self personally; as, a parent can hardly disown his child; an author will sometimes disown his writings.

Definition of Disown

1. Verb. To refuse to own or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Disown

1. to deny the ownership of [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disown

Literary usage of Disown

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

1. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"disfellowship (US), disown (in the Society of Friends). 4. banish, exile, exclude, drive (used with "out"); spec, deport, expatriate, ..."

2. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1881)
"They had done their work clumsily, and had committed the Queen to a position which she was forced to disown. Crofts, the real traitor, was thus for the time ..."

3. Scotland by Walter Scott, Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1899)
"... disrespectful to the King—He is called before the Privy Council—The Clergy encourage him to disown the Jurisdiction of the Judges—He is found guilty, ..."

4. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1808)
"... That, if the King should offer to subvert their civil liberties, they will disown him as an enemy, and choose another to be King for their own defence. ..."

5. A Full Report of the Case of Stacy Decow, and Joseph Hendrickson, Vs. Thomas by Stacy Decow, Joseph Hendrickson, New Jersey Court of Appeals, New Jersey Court of Chancery, Thomas Latham Shotwell (1834)
"... undertaken to disown the majority, and upon this weighty principle, to take all the property to themselves ; but if the basis of this claim be valid, ..."

6. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs, from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"bishop of St. Andrews was no murther, and did there disown the kings authority. The i8th arrived here Don Alexander Farnese, ..."

7. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"disfellowship (US), disown (in the Society of Friends). 4. banish, exile, exclude, drive (used with "out"); spec, deport, expatriate, ..."

8. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1881)
"They had done their work clumsily, and had committed the Queen to a position which she was forced to disown. Crofts, the real traitor, was thus for the time ..."

9. Scotland by Walter Scott, Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1899)
"... disrespectful to the King—He is called before the Privy Council—The Clergy encourage him to disown the Jurisdiction of the Judges—He is found guilty, ..."

10. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1808)
"... That, if the King should offer to subvert their civil liberties, they will disown him as an enemy, and choose another to be King for their own defence. ..."

11. A Full Report of the Case of Stacy Decow, and Joseph Hendrickson, Vs. Thomas by Stacy Decow, Joseph Hendrickson, New Jersey Court of Appeals, New Jersey Court of Chancery, Thomas Latham Shotwell (1834)
"... undertaken to disown the majority, and upon this weighty principle, to take all the property to themselves ; but if the basis of this claim be valid, ..."

12. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs, from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"bishop of St. Andrews was no murther, and did there disown the kings authority. The i8th arrived here Don Alexander Farnese, ..."

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