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DISOWNMENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does disownment mean?
• DISOWNMENT (noun)
The noun DISOWNMENT has 1 sense:
1. refusal to acknowledge as one's own
Familiarity information: DISOWNMENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Refusal to acknowledge as one's own
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
disowning; disownment
Hypernyms ("disownment" is a kind of...):
renunciation; repudiation (rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid)
Derivation:
disown (prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting)
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