Dictionary

1. (

• disownment ,
• disowning

) refusal to acknowledge as one's own ;

1. (

• disinherit ,
• disown

) prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting ;

2. (

• disown ,
• renounce ,
• repudiate

) cast off; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son" ;