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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for disown

to refuse to recognize or acknowledge

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Synonyms for disown

prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting

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Begone, abhorred, disowned, no son of mine, Thou vilest of the vile!
I--I-- came,' said Ralph, speaking more slowly, and with harsher emphasis, 'I came to say how grieved I am that any relative of mine, although disowned by me, should have inflicted such punishment on you as--'
Hemp the officer reads out periodically at the Sheriffs' Court--young gentlemen of very good family often, only that the latter disowns them; frequenters of billiard-rooms and estaminets, patrons of foreign races and gaming- tables.
"Heathens and savage tribes hold that doctrine, but Christians and civilised nations disown it."
how can I believe thee, who hast disowned and wronged thy former patron?'
Very grave and good women exclaimed against men who begot children, and then disowned them.
Forlorn and disowned, sorely tried and sadly changed--her beauty faded, her mind clouded--robbed of her station in the world, of her place among living creatures--the devotion I had promised, the devotion of my whole heart and soul and strength, might be laid blamelessly now at those dear feet.
I've given him up for my part - fairly disowned him - cast him off, root and branch.
Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?
At first, John was all thwarted affection and blighted hope; next bludgeoned vanity raised its head again, with twenty mortal gashes: and the father was disowned even as he had disowned the son.
His mother's sister made a bad match--a Pole, I think--lost herself--at any rate was disowned by her family.
With him rode the King of Majorca, the hostage King of Navarre, and the fierce Don Pedro of Spain, whose pale blue eyes gleamed with a sinister light as they rested once more upon the distant peaks of the land which had disowned him.
The senior magistrate pointed out that it is the duty of both the President and foreign affairs secretary to 'disown' Panelo's statement.
Therefore, it is quite baffling how the NDC want to turn the narrative and disown their 'Star Boy', Seidu Mba, at the time he really needs them most.'
It is expected that the committee will disown the Punjab Bar Council resolution.