disinheritance
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8.4
- noun
- /ˌdɪsɪnˈhɛrɪtəns/
:
desheredación
- After learning about her disinheritance, she felt betrayed and angry.
Examples
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Ordinance marriage also gave women and their children new disinheritance rights.
Academic text (1994) -
No plans for disinheritance, were there?
Fiction book (1990) -
His mother has demanded he break the engagement or suffer disinheritance.
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His plot centers instead on securing a wife of "the best blood" to produce an "offspring to inherit and preserve his father's illustrious name" or face disinheritance.
Academic text (2014) -
"The atmosphere of Leon's childhood was rife with nostalgia and elegies to lost homelands, a sense of exile and disinheritance; yet it was leavened with recognition of the freedom and opportunity afforded by the adopted Canadian home.
Academic text (1997) -
The family's decision to impose disinheritance left him without a share of the estate.
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The lawyer explained the implications of disinheritance to the heirs gathered for the reading of the will.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
disinheritance = disinherit (transparent) = dis + inherit + ance
This is a standard noun formation from the verb 'disinherit', meaning the act or result of disinheriting.
Etymology
The word disinheritance comes from the prefix dis-, meaning 'not', and inherit, meaning 'to receive from a relative'. So, disinheritance is the act of making someone 'not' an heir, taking away their right to inherit money or property.