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Example sentences for "disinherit"

Lexicographically close words:
disinfected; disinfecting; disinfection; disingenuous; disingenuousness; disinheritance; disinherited; disinheriting; disintegrate; disintegrated
  1. If Sir Isaac wanted to disinherit her he must disinherit her.

  2. She was going to write a telegram that she knew would bring Crappen headlong--to disinherit her absolutely.

  3. At last my Father was going about to disinherit me in good earnest.

  4. Do you think," interrupted the emperor, "that in Prussian head-quarters they mean seriously to disinherit the German princes?

  5. Many times I have dreamed that my son was alive, and that I had spoken with him, and once that I had asked him why he had not written to me for so long, seeing that I had it in my power to disinherit him.

  6. I believe he is alive, and that if I disinherit him I shall commit a sin.

  7. M232) Special directions are also given to a judge as to his procedure, when a father was minded to disinherit his son; or, when a widow with a young family wished to marry again.

  8. M413) An adoptive parent, who had brought up a child and afterwards had children of his own, could not entirely disinherit his adopted child.

  9. M382) The Sumerian laws preserved the father’s rights to disinherit the son by a simple repudiation, saying, “You are not my son.

  10. Lord Cashel looked so more than ordinarily glum; had he been going to put on a black cap and pass sentence of death, or disinherit his eldest son, he could not have looked more stern or more important.

  11. Simeon had threatened to disinherit Barry; and Barry had called his father a d----d obstinate old fool.

  12. The guv'ner" had made threats to disinherit another of his children also, sister Gwendolen, who had married an Italian marquis with a string of titles and a dueling record.

  13. She told Mr. Darcy Natty was engaged to you, and would not give you up, all she could say; so she meant to disinherit her.

  14. They say in Speckport Lady Leroy has forbidden Captain Cavendish the house, and threatens to disinherit Natty if she keeps his company.

  15. Miss Marsh had offended her, disobeyed her in a matter on which she had set her heart, and for this she was going to disinherit her.

  16. I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

  17. We have read that the Lord threatened to smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and make of Moses a greater nation and mightier than they.

  18. Boy," he said, "you shall marry this girl or I disinherit you.

  19. If now you were to engage yourself to me, your grandfather would disinherit you.

  20. The professor had desired to make Robert Floyd his sole heir, in other words, to disinherit Harry Arnold!

  21. But, acting on the possibility that there might be a will there, which might disinherit you, you ran away and left the house to burn?

  22. To one of these he at length answered, that he was fully convinced of her misconduct, and was resolved to punish her for it: in short, that if he heard any more of it, he would disinherit her.

  23. The baron likes a man of his own tastes: they may laugh together, if it suits them; he never could be guilty of treachery, and to disinherit me would be that.

  24. In that case I shall disinherit you: partially, if not wholly.

  25. Perhaps one might plead the marriage invalid, and disinherit the children; but one would want so much proof, and I have none.

  26. His children would in the future possess all she had, though through him they destroyed the purity of her race for ever: centuries would not wash out in her sight the stain that was in their blood: but she did not disinherit them.

  27. And the bulk of your father's property is unentailed; Mr. Hazeldean might disinherit you?

  28. But you need not look so reproachful,--I 'm not going to disinherit Frank.

  29. He had cause to be displeased with his elder son, and though he did not disinherit him, he left half his property to a younger.

  30. Your uncle is going to disinherit Antony; and he wishes me to become his heir and take his name.

  31. To prove to his father and mother that no law of primogeniture could disinherit him, appeared to George Eltham an object worth striving for.

  32. Thus, for a second time, did the great Mr. Meeson hear the truth from the lips of babes and sucklings, and the worst of it was that he could not disinherit Number Two as he had Number One.

  33. He told me that you would disinherit me if I did not marry him; but I told him you would never ignore the claim of the last living Darrell--you would not pass me over and make a stranger your heir.

  34. Her beautiful face was radiant; she had evidently forgotten all about him and the threat that was to disinherit her.

  35. I told him that mother would disinherit me entirely if I married him without her consent.

  36. Has a mother the legal right to disinherit a son in case said son marries contrary to her wishes?

  37. A parent can disinherit a child if he so desires, provided there is satisfactory cause for doing so.

  38. No mother, he argued, could be so unreasonable as to disinherit a daughter who had been carried away by force and was compelled to wed her captor rather than submit to a more sinister alternative.

  39. If I ever hear that you are quarrelsome I shall detest you, but if I find that you are a coward I will disown and disinherit you.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disinherit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bereave; deprive; disown; dispossess; divest; evict; expropriate; foreclose; lose; oust; rob