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Definition of Disowning
1. Noun. Refusal to acknowledge as one's own.
Generic synonyms: Renunciation, Repudiation
Derivative terms: Disown, Disown
Definition of Disowning
1. Verb. (present participle of disown) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disowning
1. disown [v] - See also: disown
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disowning
Literary usage of Disowning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Portraiture of Quakerism: Taken from a View of the Education and by Thomas Clarkson (1806)
"V. disowning—foundation of the right of disowning— disowning no slight
punishment—wherein the hardship or suffering consists, I. SHALL conclude the ..."
2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"... a Minister of the Church of Scotland, for High Treason, and disowning,
quarrelling, and impugning of his Majesty's Royal Power and Authority, ..."
3. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"upon collecting the taxes, several refusing to pay, disowning the legality of
the last parliament, which granted them. Tis said the duke of Ormond will in 6 ..."
4. The Expositor edited by William Robertson Nicoll, Samuel Cox, James Moffatt (1892)
"And yet they had started with him, a* disowning private judgment, and as professing
in all matters to hear the Church. How was their attitude to be regarded ..."
5. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts by George Francis Dow (1913)
"Philip Veren was ordered to be set by the heels in the stocks one hour for
disowning the country's power, in open court, about forcing any to come to the ..."
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