Disinherit
verb
To remove someone from your will, preventing them from getting any of your money or possessions when you die.
He threatened to disinherit his son if he didn't return to the family business.
Often appears as...
- threaten to disinherit
- choice to disinherit
verb
To remove someone from your will, preventing them from getting any of your money or possessions when you die.
He threatened to disinherit his son if he didn't return to the family business.
Often appears as...
- threaten to disinherit
- choice to disinherit
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Serious Consequences
Disinheritance often implies serious family conflict or disapproval of the disinherited person's behavior or choices.
After marrying against her parents' wishes, she was disinherited.
Pro Tip 2/3Final Decision
Use 'disinherit' to indicate a final decision, not an ongoing process.
Her last will confirmed she had disinherited her brother, not 'was disinheriting'.
Pro Tip 3/3Legal Specificity
'Disinherit' is used in legal contexts, often referring to intentional acts detailed in legal documents.
The codicil to his will explicitly stated his intention to disinherit any heir who contested it.
Pro Tip 1/3Serious Consequences
Disinheritance often implies serious family conflict or disapproval of the disinherited person's behavior or choices.
After marrying against her parents' wishes, she was disinherited.
Pro Tip 2/3Final Decision
Use 'disinherit' to indicate a final decision, not an ongoing process.
Her last will confirmed she had disinherited her brother, not 'was disinheriting'.
Pro Tip 3/3Legal Specificity
'Disinherit' is used in legal contexts, often referring to intentional acts detailed in legal documents.
The codicil to his will explicitly stated his intention to disinherit any heir who contested it.
Pro Tip 1/3Serious Consequences
Disinheritance often implies serious family conflict or disapproval of the disinherited person's behavior or choices.
After marrying against her parents' wishes, she was disinherited.
Pro Tip 2/3Final Decision
Use 'disinherit' to indicate a final decision, not an ongoing process.
Her last will confirmed she had disinherited her brother, not 'was disinheriting'.
Pro Tip 3/3Legal Specificity
'Disinherit' is used in legal contexts, often referring to intentional acts detailed in legal documents.
The codicil to his will explicitly stated his intention to disinherit any heir who contested it.
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Quote examples
W. E. B. Du Bois
American Writer
Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood.
Quote examples
Indira Gandhi
Indian Statesman
We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives.
Quote examples
W. E. B. Du Bois
American Writer
Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood.
Quote examples
Indira Gandhi
Indian Statesman
We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives.
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