Prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting

Usage examples of disowning.

I wouldn't call it an unease, Niana, because I always feel that in disowning Uppermaster — I mean Grandmaster — Bowdly-Smart, I would be disowning part of myself.

In order to change our views we have commonly to be forced to act upon new thoughts, so urgent and so necessary that without disowning our former, mistaken ideas, we can abandon them tactfully without saying anything to anybody, even ourselves.

He hauled Scramp out of the corner, tore into him like a mastiff after a rabbit, and ended up by disowning him altogether.

The only way to get free of the paralyzing grip of family was to break out and risk everythingto frighten the family into disowning him, and then to succeed.

Disagreeing elsewhere, they agreed in disowning her, and in keeping the administration of the millionaire's money in their own hands.

It cannot last: it may end in disowning and retrieving the error, or it may end in justifying it, and building it into the reconstructed character, as something upon the whole unexpectedly fine.

Her defiance never failed to enrage Tili, who would say cruel things, disowning her child, damning her and all that she stood for.

And the last time lawyers had come to see him was back in Raed's thirteenth year here, when he'd been served divorce papers from Haifa and papers disowning him as a parent from Basma, his daughter.