DISOWNMENT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Refusal to acknowledge as one's own

Synonyms:

disowning; disownment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("disownment" is a kind of...):

renunciation; repudiation (rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid)

Derivation:

disown (prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting)

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