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What does disowning mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of disown
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Or at the most, the parent's silence is a confirmation, and his disowning it hindereth only the confirmation.
This disowning of historical truth, the deliberate upholding of the crimes of the Communist regime, is humiliating.
In other words, Mr Karzai may have to curb his infuriating habit of disowning the war whenever he finds it convenient.
Newton learned to exploit the commercial press by secretly publishing his works and disowning them as piracies.
The war was occasioned by Black Hawk disowning the treaty and attempting to repossess the territory.
The father joined in the upbraiding, the disowning of an undutiful daughter.

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