It is not all ministerial faults that will allow you to separate from or disown a minister; but only those that prove him or his ministration utterly intolerable.
And thus God is judged by them to own or disown by his prospering or afflicting, more than by his word.
And the church itself should disown such a man, and commit their souls to one that is fitter for the trust.
He has too much integrity to disown any thing I have said.
Disinherit me if you will, but I beg you will not disown me.
You may drive me from your house; you may turn me off and disown me, but you cannot make me perjure myself before God at the altar.
The Law that is very nigh to thee, even in thy heart; the Law that condemneth and hath no promise; that stoppeth the guilty PAST in its swift flight, and maketh it disown its name; the Law will accuse thee enough.
Disown sons and daughters, senor, who don't do what deserves that compliments of this sort should be paid to their parents.
And if you were not, Max, I should disown you," she whispered.
I reckon they'll disown me, Stephen, when they find it out.
In arraying him on the side of the apparition, it antagonized him with what he had done, and enabled him to renounce and disown it.
Not unreasonably then do Franks in Turkey disown the title Nazarene, as denoting that Christianity which has not been purified by European laws and European learning.
It is true, I do see defects, and very serious ones, in the character of Jesus, as drawn by his disciples; but I cannot admit that my right to disown the pretensions made for him turns on my ability to define his frailties.
Should I not rather disbelieve my hearing, than disown my moral perceptions?
The dialogue is so managed, as often to suggest what is false concerning me, yet without asserting it; so as to enable him to disown the slander, while producing its full effect against me.
Not Paley only, nor Priestley, but James Martineau also, would disown his pretence to authority; and the more so, the more imperious his claim that we believe on his word.
To try to disown me now, is an impotent superciliousness.
Butcher of Burgundy flay the very skins from them with his exactions, to teach them to disown old friendships, rather than abide the lightest blast of a tyrant's anger!
But those that the Lord makes instruments to bring back Christ, and to recover our liberties, civil and ecclesiastical, shall be such as shall disown this king and the magistrates under him.
And truest of all in the estimation of every rational man is dialectic, or the science of being, which will forget and disown us, if we forget and disown her.
No one listens to them any more than to the humble heroes who disown it; the torrent rolls on and bears with it the whole thing under the form which it has pleased it to give to these individual actions.
And therefore what a sad thing is it for those that go about to disown the Scriptures!
If that wicked men profess their wickedness, after sufficient admonition, you must professedly disown communion with them; and then you are morally separated and discharged, when you have no power locally to separate.
It is not worthy of thee to betray an innocent-minded girl, and disown her in such terms, after having so lately and so solemnly plighted thy vows to her in the hermitage.
Vainly shalt thou strive To waken his remembrance of the past; He shall disown thee, even as the sot, Roused from his midnight drunkenness, denies The words he uttered in his revellings.
And from the whole, it appears a commendable duty for the Lord's people to disown the right and lawfulness of rulers set up in contradiction to the divine law.
The records of the country, and various voices, all disown his vaunt for Slavery.
Our municipal history should be carefully read, and, unless we are prepared to disown our fathers, the conduct of Boston at memorable times should be set forward anew, as an example which her children must never forget.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disown" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
