Sentence example with the word 'disowning'

disowning

Definition n. refusal to acknowledge as one's own

Last update: August 14, 2015


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In 1679 the rising in Scotland which ended in the battle of Bothwell Bridge brought trouble on the Irish Presbyterians in spite of their loyal addresses disowning it.   [Please select]

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* Write, not "His _apparent_ guilt justified his friends in disowning him," but "his _evident_ guilt."   [Please select]

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Sir Tobias threw out his hands in a disowning gesture.   [Please select]

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Consequently, he isolates himself; for he could not submit to the majority without renouncing his will and his reason,--that is, without disowning himself, which is impossible.   [Please select]

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He had, moreover, no intention of disowning his origin when once he could feel safe in assuming his true status.   [Please select]

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