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Example sentences for "disinheriting"

Lexicographically close words:
disingenuous; disingenuousness; disinherit; disinheritance; disinherited; disintegrate; disintegrated; disintegrates; disintegrating; disintegration
  1. He is going on with a stupid marriage for the purpose of disinheriting me, and has in the mean time stopped the allowance which he had made me since I left college.

  2. You speak as though the law had given you the power of disinheriting him.

  3. And this disinherison was first allowed by the lex Iunia Vallaea, which explains the form which is to be used, and which resembles that employed in disinheriting family heirs born after the making of a will.

  4. The new marquis was very angry at the unworthiness of such a match with so mean blood, and made it an excuse for disinheriting him.

  5. Bitterly as the Squire had felt the marriage, angry as he had been with Joe, he had never had the remotest thought of disinheriting him.

  6. I imagine the reason of his disinheriting Maude--whose birth and existence it appears he did know of--was the anger he felt towards Joe and her mother, for having married in opposition to him.

  7. Good natured Boy, how he weeps, disinheriting and cutting off all other Persons whatsoever--saving those hereafter mentioned.

  8. Item, I do constitute my Nephew Bellair whole and sole Executor, disinheriting and cutting off all other Persons.

  9. Only it gave Jack the unjust impression that Phillis was swayed by the desire to keep her position, and left him quite unconscious that to her the threat of disinheriting him had been used.

  10. Set it right with Phillis, and I shall take my disinheriting without grumbling.

  11. This was good ground for disinheriting him.

  12. Whether this was only exercised when there was no father, or whether a wife could act in this way independently of her husband in disinheriting children, does not appear.

  13. Had not her aunt the power of disinheriting Brooke altogether?

  14. Chauvigny conceived misgivings, and again began to speak of disinheriting his daughter, unless the engagement was fulfilled.

  15. A betrothal took place; all was harmony, and for a time no more was said of disinheriting Madame de la Peltrie, or putting her in wardship.

  16. YOU are simply trying to find an excuse for disinheriting him.

  17. Besides, I owe you a fair start in life in exchange for disinheriting you.

  18. There was that affair of Lucy West, he had to bring that to light, and old Darcy was within an ace of disinheriting me.

  19. He states his reasons for disinheriting you plainly enough, does he not?

  20. Now, after my going through all this, after my wrestle with this formidable disease and my triumph over so elusive an ailment, is it still your intention to support him in disinheriting me?

  21. Disinheriting as a regular habit, a promiscuous pastime, is not included in the patria potestas.

  22. I do not see the justice of disinheriting one who, when he cannot do a thing, refuses to undertake it.

  23. With this particular patient, such caution is especially incumbent upon me; how my father would treat me, if I tried and failed, I can judge by his disinheriting me when I refused to try.

  24. English cause, was imprisoned and stripped of his ancient domains on the Eastern Border; and James, disinheriting Lord Erskine, annexed the earldom of Mar to the Crown.

  25. Execution itself was less terrible to the nobles than the forfeiting of their lands and the disinheriting of their families.

  26. The thought of disinheriting Commodus must, without doubt, have come often to Marcus Aurelius.

  27. This quality, expressed as an ancient opinion, especially by the pen of the Emperor Julian, caused him to commit an enormous error, which was that of not disinheriting Commodus.

  28. But he has left the money to Beryl, after disinheriting Bernard for keeping faith with my poor Alice.

  29. The chances are, though, that there's a will, disinheriting him.

  30. My impression was that he had made one, disinheriting me.

  31. If this consideration should restrain your father from disinheriting some of the males, does it leave you the power of disinheriting all the females?

  32. Your ancestor, for some reason, disinherited his daughters; but it no more follows that he intended this act as a rule for posterity, than the disinheriting of his brother.

  33. Should his father choose to punish him for so doing by disinheriting him, they would be poor enough; but, in his present frame of mind, the major was able to regard such poverty as honourable and not altogether disagreeable.

  34. A marriage such as this would be injurious to Henry; but it will not be ruinous; and as to disinheriting him for it, that would be downright wicked.

  35. He had no more power of disinheriting his own son for such an offence as that contemplated than he had of blowing out his own brains, and he knew that it was so.

  36. As to the disinheriting of Aubrey, no more had been heard of it.

  37. She refused to sign a codicil to my father's will, disinheriting me, and came to tell me so this morning!

  38. You know that Elizabeth refused to witness the codicil father wrote last October disinheriting Aubrey, when he was so mad with Sir Henry?

  39. And now the revelation that Mr. Crawford was actually on the point of disinheriting his niece made it impossible to ignore the obvious connection between that fact and the event of the night.

  40. What then did Mr. Crawford say in regard to disinheriting Miss Lloyd?

  41. Disinheriting Jack was not in it by comparison.

  42. She clung to him with a cling that forgot the immediate past, disinheriting and all.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disinheriting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.