1. Refusal to acknowledge as one's own
   - disownment

1. Prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting
   - disinherit 
2. Cast off
   - renounce, repudiate

Type of: deprive, reject, renunciation, repudiation

Encyclopedia: Disown

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