Disowned
[dɪs'əʊnd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Disown
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Examples
- He's disowned his own father. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- His mother's sister made a bad match--a Pole, I think--lost herself--at any rate was disowned by her family. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- So the patient work of the German schoolmasters was disowned, and the Hohenzollern declared himself triumphant. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He looked piteously at my lord, who never spoke to him during dinner, and at the ladies, who disowned him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
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