'Disownment' definitions:
Definition of 'disownment'
(from WordNet)
noun
Refusal to acknowledge as one's own [syn: disownment, disowning]
Definition of 'Disownment'
From: GCIDE
- Disownment \Dis*own"ment\, n. Act of disowning. [R.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'disownment'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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