Disowned

Definition: Disowned

Disowned

Adjective

1. Any connection is denied.

Date "disowned" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1678. (references)

Synonym: Disowned

Synonym: repudiated (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Disowned

Etymologies containing "disowned": Disown. (references)

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Modern Usage: Disowned

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Modern woman has disowned womanhood but refuses man's obligations. (The Divorce of Lady X; writing credit: Gilbert Wakefield; Lajos Bir�)
Lyrics	Your ma disowned you (Slide; performing artist: Goo Goo Dolls)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Disowned

Domain	Title
Books	Disowned (1852) (reference) Disowned by Memory: Wordworth's Poetry of the 1790s (reference) The Disowned (The Works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton (19 Volumes)) (reference) The Disowned Self (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Disowned

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Disowned. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Use in Literature: Disowned

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Formerly disowned Yesterday.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Disowned

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Romania	The book was condemned widely by the national media and leadership, and the PRM leadership disowned the book. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Disowned

"Disowned" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Disowned" is used about 58 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)	50%	29	64,444
Lexical Verb (past participle)	46.55%	27	66,962
Adjective (general or positive)	3.45%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	58	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Disowned

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "disowned": hopper-disowned.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Disowned

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
disowned	11
disowned girl white	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Disowned

Language		Translations for "disowned"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏منفي (denied, expatriate). (various references)

German		verableugnete, abgelehnt (declined, deprecated, disliked, spurned). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		呼び込む (to call in, to restore a disowned son). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		よび�"む (to call in, to restore a disowned son). (various references)

Pig Latin		isownedday

Spanish		desconocido por todos, repudiado, renegado (heretic, renegade, turncoat, unfaithful), rechazado (discouraged, dismissed, offcast, outcast, rejected). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Disowned

Misspellings
	"Disowned" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: disowe, disowne. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Disowned"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "disowned" (pronounced di'sō"nd)
3	-ō" n d	bemoaned, boned, cloned, condoned, dethroned, droned, groaned, honed, intoned, loaned, moaned, owned, phoned, postponed, stoned, toned, zoned.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Disowned

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: disendow, downside.
	Words within the letters "d-d-e-i-n-o-s-w"
	-1 letter: dowdies, indowed, noddies, swidden.
	-2 letters: didoes, diodes, disown, donsie, downed, dowsed, dwined, dwines, endows, indows, noised, nowise, onside, snowed, sodden, widens, winded, winoes.
	-3 letters: didos, dined, dines, diode, dosed, dowed, dowie, downs, dowse, dwine, eidos, endow, enows, eosin, indow, nided, nides, nodes, noise, nosed, owned, owsen, sided, sinew, snide, sonde, sowed, swine, wends.
	Words containing the letters "d-d-e-i-n-o-s-w"
	+1 letter: disendows, dowdiness, downsides, downsized, downslide.
	+2 letters: discrowned, disendowed, disendower, downslides, eiderdowns, pandowdies.
	+3 letters: disendowers, disendowing, dowdinesses, downshifted.
	+4 letters: disendowment, woodshedding.
	+5 letters: disendowments.
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