What is "disowned"

Usage examples of "disowned".

Talena, once the beautiful daughter of a great Ubar, shamed and disowned, was now nothing.

I hoped the others would honor him for it, but instead his master disowned him and he hanged himself.

If a father's dying curse held any power, he was as disowned as Donkerri, or as Kindrie, for that matter.

He dreamed that he again stood shivering by the fire in the Highlord's tower quarters after his grandfather had disowned him.

They both knew that Donkerri had been disowned and was almost certainly lying.

A fine time this would be to learn that his father's curse actually had taken effect, that he really was disowned and not the rightful Highlord after all.

He was not prepared for her vehement reaction, almost as strong as when she had refused and disowned Ysa's offer of the crown of Rendel.

On the one hand, the British Government disowned Jameson entirely, and did all it could to discourage the rising.

Eventually he compelled the surrender of the place by concealing from the garrison that a general armistice had been signed, an act which was afterwards disowned by his own government.

It is unfair to tarnish the whole Boer nation and cause on account of a few irresponsible villains, who would be disowned by their own decent comrades.

His traitorous daughter, Gerune, who had fled the Drisriaks with Ortog, the rebel, had been humbled, disowned, and enslaved.

Because of his rebellious defiance of family and society, his father had disowned him.

All the old stories-he was expelled from West Point, his own father had disowned him for his wild behavior, he was known to have made money in disreputable ways, as a professional gambler on Mississippi riverboats, in the brawling gold fields of California, and worst of all through consorting with scallywags and carpetbaggers.

You've explained, and so has your mother, and so did my father when he disowned Relyn, but it's still stupid.

She disowned Laura years ago, and that’s all the ‘keep going’ I’ve got, goddamn you.