Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of disinheriting, or the state of being disinherited.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of disinheriting, or the condition of being; disinherited; disherison.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
disinheriting
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act by a donor that terminates the right of a person to inherit
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Examples
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"There are many horror stories about an ex-spouse getting the proceeds of a big life insurance policy or the accidental disinheritance of a child because the owner never changed the beneficiary," Norfolk warns.
How To Protect Your Spouse Financially After You're Gone Chris Barth 2010
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"There are many horror stories about an ex-spouse getting the proceeds of a big life insurance policy or the accidental disinheritance of a child because the owner never changed the beneficiary," Norfolk warns.
How To Protect Your Spouse Financially After You're Gone Chris Barth 2010
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Families routinely shun other family members, whether through disinheritance and outright withdrawal of any contact or support, or the deafening "silent treatment" that some spouses and parents engage in as a form of punishment for real or perceived offenses.
Janice Harper: A Reason (and Season) to Stop Shunning Janice Harper 2011
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Families routinely shun other family members, whether through disinheritance and outright withdrawal of any contact or support, or the deafening "silent treatment" that some spouses and parents engage in as a form of punishment for real or perceived offenses.
Janice Harper: A Reason (and Season) to Stop Shunning Janice Harper 2011
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Families routinely shun other family members, whether through disinheritance and outright withdrawal of any contact or support, or the deafening "silent treatment" that some spouses and parents engage in as a form of punishment for real or perceived offenses.
Janice Harper: A Reason (and Season) to Stop Shunning Janice Harper 2011
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Planners say that same inadvertent disinheritance could hit charitable beneficiaries too.
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Not surprisingly, Mary would have trouble recruiting aristocratic staff after her disinheritance in 1536.
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If he survived long enough for the projected Parliamentary session in September 1553 — called for the specific purpose of ratifying the new succession order — then there would be little that Mary could do to forestall her own disinheritance. 34 In the 1530s Mary had publicly resisted her own disinheritance to little avail.
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What caused the disinheritance is that all incoming freshmen and transfer students are given a copy of a book to read, and no other, to create their "common experience."
Brooklyn College Alum Cuts School Out Of Will Over Reading Assignment 2010
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In one of his books, he writes, "For the other 95 percent of the world's population, conversion to Jesus Christ often means disowning, disinheritance, expulsion, arrest, and even death."
Walid Zafar: Ergun Caner, Ex-Muslim Evangelical Leader, Exposed As Fake 2010
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