disowning








verb (used with object)

  1. to refuse to acknowledge as belonging or pertaining to oneself; deny the ownership of or responsibility for; repudiate; renounce: to disown one’s heirs; to disown a published statement.

verb

  1. (tr) to deny any connection with; refuse to acknowledge
v.

1620s; see dis- + own (v.). Related: Disowned; disowning.

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