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disown |
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disown Verb to deny any connection with (someone)
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disown Translations (child) → verstoßen |
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Disown sons and daughters, senor, who don't do what deserves that compliments of this sort should be paid to their parents. Rather would I succumb than disown this one thing; and verily, where there is succumbing and leaf-falling, lo, there doth Life sacrifice itself--for power! And with all this, Stepan Arkadyevitch, who liked a joke, was fond of puzzling a plain man by saying that if he prided himself on his origin, he ought not to stop at Rurik and disown the first founder of his family--the monkey. |
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