Synonyms

1. disinherit

Sentence Examples

1. By conversing with the Houyhnhnms and looking upon them with delight, I fell to imitate their gait and gestures, which is now grown into a habit and my friends often tell me, in a blunt way, that I trot like a horse, which, however, I take for a great compliment neither shall I disown, that in speaking I am apt to fall into the voice and manner of the Houyhnhnms, and hear myself ridiculed on that account without the least mortification.
2. In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man incapable of holding any public station for since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence, the Lilliputians think nothing can be more absurd than for a prince to employ such men as disown the authority under which he acts.
3. For my own part, I have laid aside even the name of my father, and altogether disown his political principles.