Sentence examples for to disown from inspiring English sources

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to disown

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To refuse to own or to refuse to acknowledge one's own.

  • Lord Capulet and his wife threatened to disown their daughter Juliet if she didn't go through with marrying Count Paris.

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You want to disown her?

To repudiate someone is to disown them.

Then he seemed to disown all Europe.

Senior SNP figures were quick to disown the abuser.

Now that's one I wouldn't so quickly try to disown!

Are we so ungrateful as to disown progress?

When challenged to disown her evidence, Pesce had gone silent.

He has yet to disown the university as a whole.

THE Senate is where you go to disown your ideas.

He told a reporter, "my dad wanted to disown me.

Much though he would like to disown Tony Blair, he was his senior lieutenant.

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