Verb (used with object) : the disinherited peoples of the earth. From Dictionary.com.
About to be disinherited from the family fortune, Stephen returns to home after a long estrangement and it happens to be the night his father is shot to death. From Wordnik.com. [The Inheritance by Simon Tolkien: Book summary] Reference
Little wonder that your parents disowned you and that now your current beef with life is that you were disinherited from a very sizable and impressive Treuter family estate. From Wordnik.com. [Are Urban Lobster’s $11 Specials Worth the Extra Buck? | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan] Reference
As for his ever having been disinherited, that is a newspaper story, pure and simple. From Wordnik.com. [The Four Pools Mystery] Reference
Those whom you have so well called the disinherited of the world, are certainly the object of our solicitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 5] Reference
They claim to speak for 4.8 million "disinherited" Brazilians, rural and urban alike. From Wordnik.com. [A Plot Of Their Own] Reference
The "disinherited" Elizabeth was never restored to her rights and heirship as a daughter. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter By E. Ben Ez-er] Reference
And the word is that four months before Aaron Spelling died, he kind of disinherited her. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2006] Reference
It was, you know, publicized that I was "disinherited," that I was shocked at what I received. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 14, 2008] Reference
"disinherited" for the part they had taken with the Earl of Leicester, sought admission to the city. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
Christina's children are in their turn disinherited. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
"I've already been disinherited," explained Brian dryly. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
And you are wounded for me, and now I have disinherited you. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
May never child be born of me by whom he may be disinherited!. From Wordnik.com. [Cligés. English] Reference
He disinherited him, and made his second son leave the army and come home. From Wordnik.com. [The Carved Cupboard] Reference
Some observers predict serious trouble if the older brother is disinherited. From Wordnik.com. [Mother Knows Best] Reference
Brian had been disinherited much too often to resent it all at once to-night. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
Mainwaring, by which his elder son was disinherited, was produced and read in court. From Wordnik.com. [That Mainwaring Affair] Reference
"Yes, I know the old gentleman disinherited Harold, but would his heirs have no claim?". From Wordnik.com. [That Mainwaring Affair] Reference
Yupanqui, though he had an older legitimate son named Cunti Mayta, whom he disinherited. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Incas] Reference
If his father disinherited him he must verily expect to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow. From Wordnik.com. [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference
Charles, who was thereby disinherited, and they accordingly refused to be bound by its provisions. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
He was so enamoured of her that he endowed her with his estates, and disinherited his own kinsfolk. From Wordnik.com. [The Portland Peerage Romance] Reference
Master Frank took to the North Road accordingly, an exile from his home and disinherited of his patrimony. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
Lyle and Erik, she said, were afraid of being disinherited by their father and wanted to escape his control. From Wordnik.com. [Killing As A Cry For Help] Reference
County: people will think no better of him for having lamed me, disinherited me, and practiced a fraud on them. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
True, Roman justice might be silenced with money, but he was a disowned and disinherited son, a penniless outcast!. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
French court, he became a Roman Catholic, and was in consequence, on his return, disinherited and placed under restraint. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference
Bernardone was so angry with his son that he then and there disinherited him, and said he would not own him as his son any more. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light] Reference
Identifying in an intensely personal way with the anguish of the poor and powerless in America, he became the tribune of the disinherited. From Wordnik.com. [What If Rfk Had Survived?] Reference
Still the intense perplexity of her face was staggering his impression that this adventurous daughter of his disinherited son was trying by a. From Wordnik.com. [Bluebell A Novel] Reference
He cared little for his wrath or its effects; if disinherited himself, it pleased his imagination to think he had enriched his gentle cousin. From Wordnik.com. [Nick of the Woods] Reference
As for the lady, she cast one deprecating glance, swifter than lightning, at him she had disinherited, and then she turned her face to marble. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
Joseph; and so he came into the land of Great Britain and disinherited this felon paynim and consumed him; and therewith delivered Joseph out of prison. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
Only malcontents, at odds with their native land, like Bothwell, or the Earl of Arundel, or Leicester's disinherited son, made prolonged residence in Italy. From Wordnik.com. [English Travellers of the Renaissance] Reference
Lady's brow, this same knight hath been disinherited as well of his courtesy as of his lands, since he desires to appear before us without uncovering his face. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference
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