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disowning

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Definitions of disowning in various dictionaries:

noun - refusal to acknowledge as one's own

verb - prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting

verb - cast off

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Possible Crossword Clues
Repudiation lies in PM's street
Denying having supper, eating pig

Last Seen in these Crosswords & Puzzles
Jun 24 2005 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword
Sep 16 2004 The Telegraph - Cryptic

Possible Dictionary Clues
Present participle of disown.
refuse to acknowledge or maintain any connection with.
refusal to acknowledge as one's own
Refuse to acknowledge or maintain any connection with.

Disowning might refer to
Disownment is the formal act or condition of forcibly renouncing or no longer accepting one's consanguineous child as a member of one's family or kin. It differs from giving a child up for adoption both in that it is a social and interpersonal issue (and therefore usually takes place later in the child's life, though children can be disowned by their parents at very young ages as well) and that it does not imply any arrangement for future care. In this sense it is comparable to divorce or repudiation (of a spouse). Disownment may entail disinheritance, familial exile, or shunning, and often a combination of the three. * Disownment is often a taboo course of action; in many modern legal systems, it is considered a form of child abandonment and is against the law in many countries. In very rare cases, a society and its institutions will accept an act of disownment. In one such example, the British politician Leo Amery had two adult sons, both young adults at the time of World War II; on

Disowning might refer to

Disownment is the formal act or condition of forcibly renouncing or no longer accepting one's consanguineous child as a member of one's family or kin. It differs from giving a child up for adoption both in that it is a social and interpersonal issue (and therefore usually takes place later in the child's life, though children can be disowned by their parents at very young ages as well) and that it does not imply any arrangement for future care. In this sense it is comparable to divorce or repudiation (of a spouse). Disownment may entail disinheritance, familial exile, or shunning, and often a combination of the three.
* Disownment is often a taboo course of action; in many modern legal systems, it is considered a form of child abandonment and is against the law in many countries. In very rare cases, a society and its institutions will accept an act of disownment. In one such example, the British politician Leo Amery had two adult sons, both young adults at the time of World War II; on

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