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disinherit
[ dis-in-her-it ]
verb (used with object)
- Law. to exclude from inheritance (an heir or a next of kin).
- to deprive of a heritage, country, right, privilege, etc.:
the disinherited peoples of the earth.
disinherit
/ ˌɪɪˈɛɪ /
verb
- law to deprive (an heir or next of kin) of inheritance or right to inherit
- to deprive of a right or heritage
Derived Forms
- ˌ徱ˈٲԳ, noun
Other Word Forms
- 徱i·i·ٲԳ noun
- ܲd··i· adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of disinherit1
Example Sentences
Another post suggested disinheriting children, and deploying "your thoughts about the estrangement in the will as a last word."
As we divest from its dated narratives and disinherit its archetypes, we need artists who are astute and skilled enough to invent new ones.
Howard Thurman said, “There is one overmastering problem that the socially and politically disinherited always face: under what terms is survival possible?”
Callum Flannelly is a painfully shy undertaker in Ireland who will be disinherited if he doesn’t marry by the time he’s 35.
Fleming severed his relationship with Monique after his mother threatened to disinherit him, an act that would reverberate across his lifetime in pangs of sadness and despair.
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