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 New England Yearly Meeting went so far as to advise the closing of meeting-house doors to all anti-slavery lecturers and the disownment the sisters had long expected now became imminent.
From The Grimké Sisters Sarah and Angelina Grimké: the First American Women Advocates of Abolition and Woman's Rights by Catherine H. Birney
With respect then to the causes of this decline, to which I shall confine myself in this chapter, they will be found in the causes of disownment.
From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3 by Thomas Clarkson
