Disownment – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
disownment
n.
cutting off (from an inheritance, family, etc.); repudiation, disavowal, renunciation
Disownment
Disownment is the formal act or condition of forcibly renouncing or no longer accepting one's
consanguineous child as a member of one's
family or
kin. It differs from giving a child up for
adoption both in that it is a
social and
interpersonal issue (and therefore usually takes place later in the child's life, though children can be disowned by their parents at very young ages as well) and that it does not imply any arrangement for future care. In this sense it is comparable to
divorce or
repudiation (of a spouse). Disownment may entail
disinheritance, familial
exile, or
shunning, and often a combination of the three.
disownment
Noun
1. refusal to acknowledge as one's own
(synonym) disowning
(hypernym) repudiation, renunciation
(derivation) disinherit, disown
Disownment
(n.)
Act of disowning.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
disownment
Synonyms and related words:
abjuration, abjurement, abrogation, absolute contradiction, annulment, chucking, chucking out, contempt, contradiction, contrary assertion, contravention, controversion, countering, crossing, declination, declining, denial, despisal, despising, disaffirmation, disallowance, disapproval, disavowal, discard, disclaimer, disclamation, discounting, disendowment, disherison, disinheritance, dismissal, disowning, dispossession, disproof, disregard, disseisin, eviction, exception, exclusion, expatriation, expropriation, foreclosure, forswearing, gainsaying, ignoring, impugnment, nonacceptance, nonapproval, nonconsideration, nullification, palinode, palinody, passing by, putting away, putting out, rebuff, recantation, reclaiming, refusal, refutation, rejection, reneging, renouncement, renunciation, repossessing, repossession, repudiation, repulse, retractation, retraction, revocation, revokement, scouting, spurning, throwing out, turning out, unsaying, withdrawal,
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
