Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To disinherit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To disinherit; to cut off, or detain, from the possession or enjoyment of an inheritance.
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- verb obsolete To
disinherit .
Etymologies
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Examples
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For he is not served nor worshipped to his right by them of this land, for they be turned to evil living; therefore I shall disherit them of the honour which I have done them.
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For he is not served nor worshipped to his right by them of this land, for they be turned to evil living; therefore I shall disherit them of the honour which I have done them.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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I clearly disherit me thereof and inherit them without any repeal [1] or condition.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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For he would for feined or for verie small & light causes disherit his natiue subiects, and cause
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (7 of 8) The Seventh Boke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed
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For he is not served nor worshipped to his right by them of this land, for they be turned to evil living; therefore I shall disherit them of the honour which I have done them.
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I clearly disherit me thereof and inherit them without any repeal1 or condition.
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And when they were all assembled, Doña Urraca arose and said, Friends and vassals, ye have seen how my brother King Don Sancho hath disherited all his brethren, against the oath which he made to the King my father, and now he would disherit me also.
Chronicle of the Cid Various 1808
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And when the Infanta Doña Urraca, and the men of Zamora, saw that he had quiet possession of both his brother's kingdoms, they feared that he would come against them and disherit his sister also.
Chronicle of the Cid Various 1808
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I beseech you help me now against my brother, and intreat him that he will not seek to disherit me; but if he will go on with what he hath begun, say to him that I will rather die with the men of Zamora, and they with me, than give him up the town, either for price or exchange.
Chronicle of the Cid Various 1808
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I clearly disherit me thereof and inherit them without any repeal
bilby commented on the word disherit
"I am, said she, a gentlewoman that am disherited, which was sometime the richest woman of the world. Damosel, said Sir Percivale, who hath disherited you? for I have great pity of you."
- Thomas Malory, 'The Holy Grail'.
September 10, 2009