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DISOWNING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Refusal to acknowledge as one's own
Synonyms:
disowning; disownment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("disowning" is a kind of...):
renunciation; repudiation (rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid)
Derivation:
disown (prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb disown
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