disentitle

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It was quite fair: I had disentitled myself.

From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Carlyle, Thomas

The prisoners having called no evidence, according to honourable custom having almost the force of law, the prosecution was disentitled to any rejoinder.

From The Wearing of the Green, or The Prosecuted Funeral Procession by Sullivan, A.M. (Alexander Martin)

You must not suppose that his holding the office of steward, or overseer, disentitled him to the privileges of the first-class cabin.

From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Reid, Mayne

It is where a book at the outset is behind the knowledge of the day, or indeed rather not in advance of it, that it seems to be disentitled to respect.

From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Hazlitt, William Carew