The day her father had thrown her out of the house, accusing her of making disownment a family trait.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold of Kings] Reference

I've been disowned; actually, it's been more of a mutual disownment and my trust in the family is blown to bits.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's her birthday and she should cry if she wants to] Reference

I understand that a family name is a really big deal in Arabic culture and this represents a huge disownment on the part of his family.    From Wordnik.com.  [July 2005] Reference

Ratha's discovery of fire and the subsequent disownment from the clan is an interesting take on the man vs. society theme in young adult literature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference

The disownment by the Meeting was a serious penalty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quaker Hill A Sociological Study] Reference

The scandalous twig was lopped off the family tree with a swift disownment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kottu] Reference

It's been more of a mutual disownment, and my trust in the family is blown to bits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phillies Zone] Reference

But, if they should escape disownment themselves, they entail it generally upon their children.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3] Reference

Rejecting Hinduism as the oldest son brings absolute family rejection, legal disownment and persecution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biblical Recorder] Reference

Instead of freedom, disobedience could create more distress - disownment by family, or quite possibly death.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

But I didn't imagine the repercussions of disownment would be just as bad as if I'd had an arranged marriage, but they were.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

With respect then to the causes of this decline, to which I shall confine myself in this chapter, they will be found in the causes of disownment.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3] Reference

This was effectual; settlements without disownment were made to the satisfaction of all parties, and every case was disposed of previous to the year 1787.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism] Reference

They were scarcely settled amid their new surroundings before the sisters received a formal notice of their disownment by the Society of Friends because of Angelina's marriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grimke Sisters]

Hence the real cause of their disownment, which occasionally follows, is not in the children running out of bounds, but in the parents running out of bounds in the manners of their children.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3] Reference

The New England Yearly Meeting went so far as to advise the closing of meeting-house doors to all anti-slavery lecturers and the disownment the sisters had long expected now became imminent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grimke Sisters]

A third cause of disownment, but this belongs to the original and remote, was shewn to be the pursuit of trade, connected as it is with the peculiar habits of the society and a residence in the towns.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3] Reference

Protests and disclaimers against the disownment of these worthy men came from several parts of the country, signed by Friends of high character; and many private letters were addressed to them, expressive of sympathy and approbation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Isaac T. Hopper] Reference

The interpreters of the law now assert that the original marriage in 1786 had never been dissolved, and that the destruction of the promissory lines, and the temporary disownment of him by Jean and her family, could not in any way invalidate it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Burns] Reference

The exercise of this power involves an awful responsibility; for if it should become a practice with us to issue testimonies of disownment against persons that we cannot conscientiously say have broken the Divine law, we shall introduce weakness into the body, and may bring our testimonies into contempt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Samuel M. Janney,] Reference

From disownment, pardon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Church Officials Assail Abuse, Defend Pontiff] Reference

Any threats of disownment?.    From Wordnik.com.  [November 2003] Reference

Don't just threaten disownment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disgrasian: Are Chinese Mothers Superior? You Can Decide for Yourself] Reference

It ended with words of disownment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Nowhere]

I've had to face disownment from my father.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 28, 2006] Reference

I have had to face disownment from my father.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2006] Reference

"It can mean imprisonment; disownment from family; beaten up by cops.    From Wordnik.com.  [RNW: English] Reference

They have no tithes as a cause of disownment.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3] Reference

Bankruptcy was grounds for disownment.    From Wordnik.com.  [QuakerQuaker.org] Reference

Thus in the same manner, as war, according to the old saying, begets poverty, and poverty peace, so the pursuit of trade, with the peculiar habits of the society, leads to riches, riches to fashion and licentiousness, and fashion and licentiousness to disownment, so that many Quakers educate their children as if there were to be no.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3] Reference