Definition of Disowners

1. disowner [n] - See also: disowner

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disowners

disorientates
disorientating
disorientation
disorientations
disoriented
disorientedly
disorientedness
disorienting
disorientingly
disorients
disour
disours
disown
disowned
disowner
disowners (current term)
disowning
disownment
disownments
disowns
disoxidate
disoxidated
disoxidates
disoxidating
disoxidation
disoxygenate
disoxygenated
disoxygenates
disoxygenating
disoxygenation

Literary usage of Disowners

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

1. The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus (1887)
"... less ungrateful disowners of their obligations to folly, than they are impudent pretenders to the profession of piety, I willingly take my leave of, ..."

2. Manual of Political Ethics: Designed Chiefly for the Use of Colleges and by Francis Lieber, Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1876)
"... and the very disowners of expediency or the necessity of making measures practical have committed the most tyrannical outrages, not unfrequently founded ..."

3. Historical Collections of the Life and Acts of the Right Reverend Father in by John Strype (1821)
"... being now replenished with these dangerous underminers of the quiet state of the realm, and disowners of the Queen's supremacy. ..."

4. Domestic Annals of Scotland: From the Reformation to the Revolution by Robert Chambers (1874)
"Even in their limited capacity as disowners of all church-politics, they were thought to be most unchristian. Patrick Walker gravely relates an anecdote of ..."

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