Disowned

Word DISOWNED
Character 8
Hyphenation disowned
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Disowned"

What do we mean by disowned?

To refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.

To repudiate any connection to; to renounce.

To detach (a job or process) so that it can continue to run even when the user who launched it ends his/her login session.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Disowned

The word "disowned" in example sentences

The person and cause of the Pretender were become contemptible; his title disowned throughout Europe, his party disbanded in England. ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)

The person and cause of the Pretender were become contemptible; his title disowned throughout Europe; his party disbanded in England. ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)

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 ... ❋ Stephen Tall (2007)

& 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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hillary, betrayed her trust, she did not "disowned" him. ❋ Unknown (2008)

She said her family had "disowned" him and believed him to be mentally ill. ❋ Unknown (2009)

(That was not my parish ... but .... truly, I felt "disowned" by my own kind.) ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Dr. Sanity (2009)

They are certainly concern about him and also said that, you know, he had kind of disowned by his own family. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You work with your partner until each one of you no longer has any emotional charge on any of your five "disowned" words. ❋ Unknown (2009)

With that metaphor of the man, people are not "disowned" because they are angry. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Proudly South African campaign has dismissed media reports it has been "disowned" by government and the trade and industry department (dti). ❋ Unknown (2007)

Last month the campaign issued a press statement dismissing media reports that it had been "disowned" by the DTI. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Thus sayeth Marty: "Seems like common bigotry to me, that Ms. Cheney has "disowned" her own child's father before s/he is even born, for no better reason than gender bias." ❋ Ann Althouse (2006)

Seems like common bigotry to me, that Ms. Cheney has "disowned" her own child's father before s/he is even born, for no better reason than gender bias. ❋ Ann Althouse (2006)

For this first offense he was "disowned," and, according to Quaker usage, could only be received into fellowship again by declaring himself "sorry" for his crime in full meeting. ❋ Unknown (1898)

For this first offense he was "disowned," and, according to Quaker usage, could only be received into fellowship again by declaring himself ❋ Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1858)

Chalmers certainly includes them with the _Letters_, as having been "disowned" by Lord L. 's executors; but says, "as to the _Poems_, they added, '_great part whereof are undoubtedly spurious_.'" ❋ Various (1852)

She has posted elsewhere that she "disowned" her own son when he came out to her (acknowledged his homosexuality) and that he can only return after successful reparative ❋ Unknown (2010)

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