Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective having social connections repudiated.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
disown .
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Examples
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The person and cause of the Pretender were become contemptible; his title disowned throughout Europe, his party disbanded in England.
Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches, etc. Edmund Burke 1763
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The person and cause of the Pretender were become contemptible; his title disowned throughout Europe; his party disbanded in England.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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Sirius is a daredevil, attention seeking and deeply loyal man, who, to quote Rowling "never bothered having a girlfriend" and was disowned from the Anicient and Most Noble House of Black for disgracing the family name ...
The Harry Potter subtext debate Stephen Tall 2007
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& then everyone will fail to appear. & then you will start to talk to yourself. & just then you will notice that whatever you wanted to forget all those years but wanted to tell now in the voice you disowned is already forgotten. your doctor has seen you; not mengele, not goebbels — dr. alzheimer.
mark terrill | part II germany « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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& then everyone will fail to appear. & then you will start to talk to yourself. & just then you will notice that whatever you wanted to forget all those years but wanted to tell now in the voice you disowned is already forgotten. your doctor has seen you; not mengele, not goebbels — dr. alzheimer.
November « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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Hillary, betrayed her trust, she did not "disowned" him.
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She said her family had "disowned" him and believed him to be mentally ill.
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(That was not my parish ... but .... truly, I felt "disowned" by my own kind.)
TV Ad Running In Wisconsin Attacks Obama For Allegedly Letting Babies Die 2009
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Such feelings are intensely felt, but conflict with a fantasized self-perfection "I am more compassionate", "I am more loving", "I am a better person" cause them to be "disowned" and conveniently placed on the object of the envy, rage or hate.
Archive 2009-03-01 Dr. Sanity 2009
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You work with your partner until each one of you no longer has any emotional charge on any of your five "disowned" words.
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