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disinherison

disinherison noun: disherison.

Noun

disinherison (countable and uncountable, plural disinherisons)

  1. disherison
    • On the other side, if he stood upon his own title of the house of Lancaster, inherent in his person, he knew it was a title condemned by parliament, and generally prejudged in the common opinion of the realm, and that it tended directly to the disinherison of the line of York, held then the...1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret...
    • One went so far as to propose herself to him as An Uncorrupted Eve: and there is no knowing what a disinherison of Posterity may have sprung from his persistent evasion of their pointed flatteries.1859, George Meredith, chapter 1, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC

Forms of disinherison

pluraldisinherisons

Origin of disinherison

See disinherit, and compare disherison.

Questions about disinherison

What does disinherison mean?
Disinherison means disherison.
What part of speech is disinherison?
Disinherison is a noun.
What is the plural of disinherison?
The plural of disinherison is disinherisons.

Words near disinherison in the dictionary

  1. disingenuity
  2. disingenuous
  3. disingenuously
  4. disingenuousness
  5. disinhabited
  6. disinherison
  7. disinherisons
  8. disinherit
  9. disinheritable
  10. disinheritance
  11. disinheritances

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