disownment

Example Sentences

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Nanjiani's fear of disownment from his traditional Pakistani family is an insurmountable roadblock.

From The Verge • Jun. 22, 2017

I’m laying down a preemptive disownment if you become this guy or gal.

From MSNBC • May 27, 2015

He was not disowned, or at least his disownment was not permanent.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

The old people were full of anger, curses, and threats of total disownment.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 by Various

Hence the real cause of their disownment, which occasionally follows, is not in the children running out of bounds, but in the parents running out of bounds in the manners of their children.

From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3 by Clarkson, Thomas