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verb

Disown v. t. (past & past part. disowned; pres. part. disowning)

To refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one's self; to disavow or deny, as connected with one's self personally; as, a parent can hardly disown his child; an author will sometimes disown his writings.

To refuse to acknowledge or allow; to deny. "Then they, who brother's better claim disown, Expel their parents, and usurp the throne."

Synonyms: To disavow; disclaim; deny; abnegate; renounce; disallow.

noun

disowning n. The refusal to acknowledge (something or somebody) as one's own.

Synonyms: disownment.

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Etymology of 'Disowning'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Disowning" Quotes from Famous Books

... involuntary horror;—"married?" "Yes sir, married." "Why sir, I am no more married than the Provost." This was quite enough—no further questions were asked, and the head of the University preferred a merciful course towards the offender, to repudiating his wife and disowning his children. Now for the application. Certain captious and incredulous people have doubted the veracity of the adventures I have recorded in these pages; I do not think it necessary to appeal to concurrent testimony and credible witnesses for their proof, but I pledge myself to the fact ...

— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Vol. 1 • Charles James Lever

... necessity of entering into a Croisade against them, as formerly against the infidels. If I durst I would acquaint your Lordship with the reflexions of all publique ministers here and of other unconcerned persons in relation to his Majesty's owning or disowning this man; but not knowing the particulars of his case, nor the grounds his Maty may go upon, I shall forbeare entering upon this discourse. . ...

— The Lock and Key Library/Real Life #2 • Julian Hawthorne

... darkness; stealthy footfalls which of late I had so often seemed to hear were now referred to their true cause as we saw each other eye to eye. The old Adam had awakened and was come for his inheritance; and the vision of him there across the pane gazing in upon his own, seemed to arraign me for disowning a brother and denying his indefeasible right. I recognized that with this familiar form cold reason had returned to oust the hopes and emotions which had usurped her office. My rush for freedom had ended, as such sallies ...

— Apologia Diffidentis • W. Compton Leith

... to Mr. Crawford, he angrily repeated his threat of utterly disowning his child; and he meant what he said—for he was a man of stern purpose and unbending will. When trusting to the love she believed him to bear for her, Fanny ventured home, she was rudely repulsed, and told that she no longer had a father. ...

— The Lights and Shadows of Real Life • T.S. Arthur

... the territory of Ioway, on the east side of the Mississippi, which the Government wished, perforce, to take from them. The following is Black Hawk's account of the means by which this land was obtained. The war was occasioned by Black Hawk disowning the treaty and ...

— Diary in America, Series Two • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)

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