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Answer for the clue "Refusal to acknowledge as one's own ", 10 letters:
disownment

Word definitions for disownment in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Disownment is the formal act or condition of forcibly renouncing or no longer accepting one's consanguineous child as a member of one's family or kin . It differs from giving a child up for adoption both in that it is a social and interpersonal issue (and ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disownment \Dis*own"ment\, n. Act of disowning. [R.]

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. refusal to acknowledge as one's own [syn: disowning ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Act of disowning.

Usage examples of disownment.

Even if she were freed, she would not, in virtue of the disownment, have a caste.

How startled, how crushed would she have been, to learn at last, incontrovertibly, that her disownment was true.

How startled, how crushed would she have been, to learn at last, incontrovertibly, that her disownment was true.

Another junkie of the secret life, as Hyde had once described it to Aubrey, who had pursed his lips in disownment of the colloquial epithet.