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Meanings of disowned in English

Repudiated.

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Usage of disowned in English
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Remarkably, the statisticians at ETS disowned such an approach to the problem.
Numbers rule your world: the hidden influence of probabilities a...
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France canvassed the idea privately, then disowned it when Germany objected loudly.
Reuters
3
The rest of my family disowned me when I joined Lucien's government.
The eyes of a king
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She disowned earlier poems which reflected Stalinist era literary style and content.
Reuters
5
Hardly a Reilly any more -the Reilly family had disowned him.
Monster republic
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The Quakers themselves confess, the Ranters are to be disowned, page 4.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
7
And so the baa-lambs of Meeting have disowned their two black sheep.
Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker / Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on ...
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Then and there I disowned menial service for me and my people.
Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil
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So many influences trying to shape me, and I disowned them all.
Something from the nightside
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He disowned all of them when Peter Pan Edition published by Scribners.
The new yorker
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Mr. Kosminski took several years to understand that Alte had disowned him.
Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
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A school-mate, who was disowned by her family for marrying beneath her.
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
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People are apt to say, where is the hardship of being disowned?
A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 / Taken from a View of the ...
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Asked if he disowned his daughter, Le Pen said he did so absolutely.
The Guardian
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He was no true son in reality; his order disowned him.
What's Bred in the Bone
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Dr. Vaudelier disowned him, and sunk the deeper in his melancholy.
Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue / A Tal...
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