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Definition of Disowned
1. disown [v] - See also: disown
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disowned
Literary usage of Disowned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (2001)
"disowned. THE king sat musing a few moments, then looked up and said“Tis strange—most
strange. I cannot account for it.” “No, it is not strange, my liege. ..."
2. A Portraiture of Quakerism: Taken from a View of the Moral Education by Thomas Clarkson (1808)
"Of persons, disowned for marriage, the greater proportion is said to consist of
women—Causes assigned for this difference of number in the tws sexes, ..."
3. A Portraiture of Quakerism, Taken from a View of the Moral Education by Thomas Clarkson (1807)
"Of persons, disowned for marriage, the greater proportion is said to consist of
women—Causes assigned for this difference of number in the two sexes. ..."
4. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1899)
"disowned TTHE king sat musing a few moments, then looked I up and said: " 'Tis
strange — most strange. I cannot account for it." "No, it is not strange, ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1858)
"Yet AD understands, (ie has heard it casually asserted very recently,) that, not
only have the cruelties been formally disowned, but that the very existence ..."
6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... gave to the Huguenots eight fortified cities, disowned all share in the massacre
of St. Bartholomew's Day and gave the Huguenots representation in the ..."
7. The American Law of Landlord and Tenant by John Neilson Taylor (1904)
"Will not lie after Tenant's Estate is determined or disowned. — For a similar
reason, this action will not lie, after a recovery in ejectment, ..."
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