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Definitions of disown in various dictionaries:
verb - prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting
verb - cast off
verb - to deny the ownership of
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| To repudiate or renounce, especially one's heirs |
| Deny connection with, as with an heir |
| Possible Dictionary Clues |
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| To refuse to acknowledge or accept as one's own repudiate. |
| refuse to acknowledge or maintain any connection with. |
| prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting |
| Refuse to acknowledge or maintain any connection with. |
| to make it known that you no longer have any connection with someone that you were closely connected with: |
| to state that you no longer have any connection with someone that you used to be closely connected with |
| Disown might refer to |
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| 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 |