Disownment

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Disownment \Dis*own"ment\, n.
     Act of disowning. [R.]
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  disownment
       n : refusal to acknowledge as one's own [syn: {disowning}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  78 Moby Thesaurus words for "disownment":
     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