Definitions
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
disinherit .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective deprived of your rightful heritage
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Examples
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About to be disinherited from the family fortune, Stephen returns to home after a long estrangement and it happens to be the night his father is shot to death.
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Little wonder that your parents disowned you and that now your current beef with life is that you were disinherited from a very sizable and impressive Treuter family estate.
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He knowing his father to be a resolute man, and punctual to his word, thought it impossible ever to reconcile him to the match, at which the young man began to consider what course to take, that he might not incur his fatherÕs displeasure, and by that means be disinherited from a good and extensive estate that he was sole heir to.
The Cruel Husband; or, Dvonshire Tragedy Anonymous 1809
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As for his ever having been disinherited, that is a newspaper story, pure and simple.
The Four Pools Mystery Jean Webster 1896
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Those whom you have so well called the disinherited of the world, are certainly the object of our solicitude.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete ��mile Zola 1871
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Those whom you have so well called the disinherited of the world, are certainly the object of our solicitude.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 5 ��mile Zola 1871
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Those whom you have so well called the disinherited of the world, are certainly the object of our solicitude.
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871
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It was, you know, publicized that I was "disinherited," that I was shocked at what I received.
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They claim to speak for 4.8 million "disinherited" Brazilians, rural and urban alike.
A Plot Of Their Own 2007
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And the word is that four months before Aaron Spelling died, he kind of disinherited her.
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