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DISINHERITED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does disinherited mean?
• DISINHERITED (adjective)
The adjective DISINHERITED has 1 sense:
1. deprived of your rightful heritage
Familiarity information: DISINHERITED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deprived of your rightful heritage
Similar:
unloved (not loved)
Context examples
The independence she settled on Robert, through resentment against you, has put it in his power to make his own choice; and she has actually been bribing one son with a thousand a-year, to do the very deed which she disinherited the other for intending to do.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
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