Example Sentences

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When Daemon's conduct becomes intolerable, Viserys disinherits and banishes him.

From Salon • Oct. 22, 2022

If she disinherits me, her only child, I can’t make it up to my half-siblings.

From Slate • Oct. 12, 2021

He disinherits Lewis, leaving him only the ill-fated collection.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2015

Sebald’s melancholy flâneur, then, already disinherits Baudelaire’s 19th-century optimism.

From Salon • Feb. 4, 2013

And she will tell them at Worthbourne till old Sir Antony disinherits Percy.

From Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife by Yonge, Charlotte Mary