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Synonyms for disown
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : dis-ohn |
| Phonetic Transcription : dɪsˈoʊn |
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Définition of disown
Origin :- 1620s; see dis- + own (v.). Related: Disowned; disowning.
- verb refuse to acknowledge
- Do you mean, I said, that you disown the love of the person whom he says that you love?
- Extract from : « Lysis » by Plato
- "Of you," said I, blushing, and trying to disown the personality.
- Extract from : « Gerald Fitzgerald » by Charles James Lever
- She longed, with a face glowing with indignation, to disown him—in word and deed.
- Extract from : « The Wild Geese » by Stanley John Weyman
- I'll bet my pile she'd disown you, if she knew you turned your back on a woman.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 » by Various
- She does not disown you in your sorrow no, not even in your guilt.
- Extract from : « The Lady of Lyons » by Edward Bulwer Lytton
- It was; he chose to disown her; to meet her without even a hand held out!
- Extract from : « Heartsease » by Charlotte M. Yonge
- From that time he thought fit to disown your humble servant.
- Extract from : « Zanoni » by Edward Bulwer Lytton
- The present duty was to disown and withstand his son in law.
- Extract from : « The History of England from the Accession of James II. » by Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Some one informed his father, who threatened to disown him if he married her.
- Extract from : « Won from the Waves » by W.H.G. Kingston
- It did not occur to this young lady to try to disown the substitute.
- Extract from : « The Madigans » by Miriam Michelson
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