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misown

misown verb: to own, claim, or appropriate wrongly or amiss; fail to own; disown.

Verb

misown (third-person singular simple present misowns, present participle misowning, simple past and past participle misowned)

  1. (transitive) To own, claim, or appropriate wrongly or amiss; fail to own; disown.
    • A thetan very often carries with him a theta body which he mocked up on the past track and which is a number of facsimiles of old bodies he has misowned and is carrying along with him as control mechanisms which he uses […]1977, La Fayette Ron Hubbard, Pat Brice, Laurel Rock, Have you lived before this life?
    • We feel as if we are ourselves afflicted or at ease when a son or a wife or an^([sic]) person dear to us is so (2) we also misattribute or misown properties which rightly belong not to us as conscious persons but to our bodies.2000, Shyama Kumar Chattopadhyaya, The Philosophy of Sankar's Advaita Vedanta

Forms of misown

third-person singular presentmisowns
present participlemisowning
past participlemisowned
pastmisowned

Origin of misown

From mis- + own.

Words formed from misown

Questions about misown

What does misown mean?
Misown means to own, claim, or appropriate wrongly or amiss; fail to own; disown.
What part of speech is misown?
Misown is a verb.
What is the past tense of misown?
The past tense of misown is misowned.

Words near misown in the dictionary

  1. misosophy
  2. misotheism
  3. misotheist
  4. misotheistic
  5. misotheists
  6. misown
  7. misowned
  8. misowning
  9. misowns
  10. misoxeny
  11. misozoic

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