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Disinherit   Listen
verb
Disinherit  v. t.  (past & past part. disinherited; pres. part. disinheriting)  
1.
To cut off from an inheritance or from hereditary succession; to prevent, as an heir, from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent. "Of how fair a portion Adam disinherited his whole posterity!"
2.
To deprive of heritage; to dispossess. "And disinherit Chaos, that reigns here."





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"Disinherit" Quotes from Famous Books



... write down the figures when her father was taking measures, and so it had come about that a Count Colloredo had fallen in love with her. He had wished to educate and marry her; but she had at last refused because the noble relations of her beloved had threatened to disinherit him if he married the "shoemaker's daughter." She could never have endured causing him to discard his beautiful Thurn and Taxis ...
— 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein
... hearty laugh on me by seeing me in a fix. His manner was so trying that time that I banged a chessman on his forehead which was injured a little bit and bled. He told all about this to father, who said he would disinherit me. ...
— Botchan (Master Darling) • Mr. Kin-nosuke Natsume, trans. by Yasotaro Morri
... creature! You know I love you, and you take advantage of it. She'd cut her father's throat! Good God! you've given our fortune to that ne'er-do-well,—that dandy with morocco boots! By the shears of my father! I can't disinherit you, but I curse you,—you and your cousin and your children! Nothing good will come of it! Do you hear? If it was to Charles—but, no; it's impossible. What! has ...
— Eugenie Grandet • Honore de Balzac
... A father could disinherit a son in early times without restriction, but the Code insisted upon judicial consent and that only for repeated unfilial conduct. In early times the son who denied his father had his front hair shorn, a slave-mark put on him, and [v.03 p.0120] ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 - "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" • Various
... may disinherit her, if you please, should I receive her hand against your will; but your daughter is mine according to your promise, and you can shew ...
— The Lawyers, A Drama in Five Acts • Augustus William Iffland


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