The person and cause of the Pretender were become contemptible; his title disowned throughout Europe, his party disbanded in England.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches, etc.] Reference

The person and cause of the Pretender were become contemptible; his title disowned throughout Europe; his party disbanded in England.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12)] Reference

Hillary, betrayed her trust, she did not "disowned" him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moore: Clinton is trying to scare voters] Reference

(That was not my parish ... but .... truly, I felt "disowned" by my own kind.).    From Wordnik.com.  [TV Ad Running In Wisconsin Attacks Obama For Allegedly Letting Babies Die] Reference

With that metaphor of the man, people are not "disowned" because they are angry.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Dante Troutt: No Country for Old (Black) Men] Reference

They are certainly concern about him and also said that, you know, he had kind of disowned by his own family.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 26, 2009] Reference

Last month the campaign issued a press statement dismissing media reports that it had been "disowned" by the DTI.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

You work with your partner until each one of you no longer has any emotional charge on any of your five "disowned" words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tabby Biddle: The Anti-Affirmation] Reference

She said her family had "disowned" him believed him to be mentally ill.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

She said her family had "disowned" him and believed him to be mentally ill.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

A cousin, Virginia Gerker of St. Louis, said her family had "disowned" him, believing him to be mentally ill.    From Wordnik.com.  [News for Richmond Times-Dispatch] Reference

"The comments, comments that I've disowned," Obama said.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political Rerun] Reference

This was the import of nearly or quite all who were disowned of our company.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference

Iran's foreign minister has publicly disowned the Badr Brigades, for instance.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Helpfully Neutral'] Reference

It was a lamb whose mother had disowned him, leaving the responsibility to Mary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wrong Woman] Reference

Unfortunately, right now my father doesn't talk to me and has all but disowned me.    From Wordnik.com.  ['My Son Is A Homosexual'] Reference

SIEGEL: But I gather the state Green Party in Arizona has disowned these candidates.    From Wordnik.com.  [GOP Operative On Homeless Greens Campaign] Reference

We believe, indeed, that by most persons it has already been dismissed and disowned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference

West, disowned it, and counseled conciliation and further concessions to the demands of slavery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Recollections 1840 to 1872] Reference

I should be cut by everyone, disowned by my own father, prosecuted by the bank, and sent to prison.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scarlet Feather] Reference

As I told you, they disowned her when she married your father, though there wasn't a finer man going.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe Strong on the Trapeze or The Daring Feats of a Young Circus Performer] Reference

We literally crouched at the feet of England, and begged for recognition like a poor, disowned relation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

By birth he was a Friend, but the Society in England disowned him on account of his revolutionary propensities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] 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

She was disowned by them when she married your father -- as if public performers weren't as good as aristocrats, any day!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe Strong on the Trapeze or The Daring Feats of a Young Circus Performer] Reference

He adds: "I had been almost disowned by my own father for choosing a life of rock and roll, rather than becoming a lawyer.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Andy Kershaw: 'Amateur psychologists say Rwanda screwed me up. It didn't: I just reported it'] Reference

Obama almost gagged on Reverend Wright's comments suggesting that he had disowned a pastor he said he could never disown.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political Rerun] Reference

If Mark's father had not disowned him, because he preferred art to that terrible City, you would never have come between us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Slave of Silence] Reference

The divine right of kings, which nourished as a sentiment long after it was disowned by the laws, has at last gone spark out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference

He drove me from mine heritage, and so disowned me, and he had never pity for me, and would none of my council nor of my court.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"] Reference

Her husband disowned her and she remarried a man named John London, whose various get-rich-quick schemes always came to nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wolf: The Lives of Jack London by James L Haley] Reference

Adonis was in any way related to the family; and if either had been, the probability is that his kindred would have disowned him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference

His brother, John, the ex-Wimbledon striker and now TV presenter, publicly disowned him, although he later retracted his comments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fans say they would back gay footballers who come out] Reference

His grandfather disowned him, he wouldn't have gained my consent, and the chances are a hundred to one you would have married Ormsby.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scarlet Feather] Reference

But though Wagner himself disowned this early child of his muse, there is a grand energy in it, which preserves it from triviality.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference