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disinherit

verb as in cut off in will of bequeathal

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“I believe there was a will that disinherited us somewhere,” he said.

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Jose was planning to disinherit the brothers because he considered them failures, according to court filings.

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Another post suggested disinheriting children, and deploying "your thoughts about the estrangement in the will as a last word."

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As we divest from its dated narratives and disinherit its archetypes, we need artists who are astute and skilled enough to invent new ones.

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Howard Thurman said, “There is one overmastering problem that the socially and politically disinherited always face: under what terms is survival possible?”

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