refusal to acknowledge as one's own
Used in a Sentence
disowning
Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for disowning.
Editorial note
As you say, the risk is not a temp outage for small users, the risk is your isp or host or whatever disowning you.
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Quick take
refusal to acknowledge as one's own
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of disowning gathered in one view.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for disowning.
noun
refusal to acknowledge as one's own
Example sentences
As you say, the risk is not a temp outage for small users, the risk is your isp or host or whatever disowning you.
Hey @kickstarter It's time to kill the @anonabox - @torproject needs to make a statement disowning this project too.
Now for the Democrats, please show me an article about a Democrat disowning Obama for his use of ICE.
Like, what exactly are you proposing when you say shaming and disowning women and children?
There's a difference between disowning your child and riding your workers to the brink versus being rude to somebody at the supermarket.
They aren't disowning their father's surname–they aren't estranged from him or anything, their parents are still together–they just prefer it this way.
If any of my kids have a child out of wedlock I'm not disowning my child or their kids.
I don’t hear developers disowning their work because they didn’t write the machine code that the compiler and linker output.
But hey, disowning and shaming is to you the Christlike response.
The postscript on disowning Lisa was that he reconciled with Lisa in her teens, she lived with him and he paid for her studies at Harvard.
Parents disowning their gay children is almost entirely religious-based.
Is this the main developers disowning it or what?
Quote examples
I didn't mean to suggest they were literally disowning him — that's why i said "functionally" and "temporarily".
IMO with Apple you have to embrace the "yes, daddy“ mentality, be gaslit into overstating the good, while disowning the bad, or you will end up angry.
I've had my parents angry at me, to the point where they've yelled and said "I could kill you!" - but they're not literally going to murder him, and they're probably not literally disowning him.
When critics proclaim "the death of the author" they aren't saying authors don't exist and don't have intentions, they are saying "You are dead to me!" They are disowning the author in an angry snit, because authors so routinely disappoint their expectations.
Proper noun examples
Disowning them of their privileges or social status typically causes them to change their positions on policy.
Disowning your peers in favor of books (what a timeless stereotype!) is only going to leave you emotionally crippled later on.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use disowning in a sentence?
As you say, the risk is not a temp outage for small users, the risk is your isp or host or whatever disowning you.
What does disowning mean?
refusal to acknowledge as one's own
What part of speech is disowning?
disowning is commonly used as noun.