Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Roman law, a disinheriting; the act of a father in excluding a child from inheriting any part of his estate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A disinheriting; disherison.
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- noun A
disinheriting ;disherison .
Etymologies
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Latin exheredatio: compare French exhérédation.
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Examples
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What has ever come of them but divorce and exheredation, sometimes worse fate, to the ambitious intruder?
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It was necessary, on this account, that Lord Sinclair should disinherit his eldest son; and "as it would," says Sir Walter Scott, "have been highly impolitic to have alleged his forfeiture for treason as a cause of the deed, the slaughter of the Schaws was given as a reason for his exheredation."
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson
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What has ever come of them but divorce and exheredation, sometimes worse fate, to the ambitious intruder?
The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day Walter Scott 1801
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