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Definition of Disownments
1. disownment [n] - See also: disownment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disownments
Literary usage of Disownments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Discipline of the Society of Friends, Indiana Yearly Meeting by Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends (1878)
"TESTIMONIALS OF disownments AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. It is directed that offenders
who incline to make acknowledgment of their offenses, shall prepare the same ..."
2. Argument of Samuel L. Southard, in the Case of Stacy Decow and Joseph by Samuel Lewis Southard, Edward Hopper (1834)
"... bors to aid him in the disownments, went out of New Jersey, and is not now an
inhabitant of this state. He deserted the country, after he had put the ..."
3. An Authentic Report of the Testimony in a Cause at Issue in the Court of by Thomas L. Shotwell, Joseph Hendrickson, Stacy Decow, Jeremiah J. Foster, New Jersey Court of Chancery (1831)
"Q. The question is, whether these disownments are not recognised by all those
meetings, as having been regularly made? Counsel. Yes,—all those that have not ..."
4. Quakerism, Past and Present: Being an Inquiry Into the Causes of Its Decline by John Stephenson Rowntree (1860)
"3292 Resignations and disownments, estimated by the ... Ackworth scholars, &c
Balance, being the excess of disownments, tic;., over admissions 2400 8400 ..."
5. Friends Intelligencer by Friends Intelligencer Association (1869)
"These two disownments—occurring, the former in 1802 and the latter in 1812—are
regarded as the commencement of a new era in the Society in England—the era ..."
6. The Quakers of Iowa by Louis Thomas Jones (1914)
"... in the current instead of attempting to adjust themselves to their new
environment the leaders undertook to purge Society by frequent disownments. ..."
7. A Review of the General and Particular Causes which Have Produced the Late by James Cockburn (1829)
"Would such disownments be deemed valid by any reasonable person? ... The disownments
attempted against those Friends who had transferred their rights to ..."
8. Report of the Trial of Friends in the City of Philadelphia, June, 1828 by Edmund Shotwell, Marcus Tullius Cicero Gould, Pennsylvania (1828)
"They were endeavouring, says Mr. Magar, to adopt measures to heal the breach;
that is, the disownments, and the conduct of the society in the laying down of ..."
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