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Disown vs Unown - What's the difference?

disown | unown |

As verbs the difference between disown and unown

is that disown is to refuse to own or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own while unown is to cease ownership.

disown

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To refuse to own or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.
    • Lord Capulet and his wife threatened to ''disown'' their daughter Juliet if she didn't go through with marrying Count Paris.

    Usage notes

    Particularly used of parents regarding their children, and stronger than the similar estrange, which can also be used of children regarding their parents, or of siblings.

    Synonyms

    * disavow * disclaim

    unown

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To cease ownership.
  • (rare) To disown.
    • Thine offspring, too, unown'd and wand'ring all --Charlotte Dacre

    Usage notes

    The basic form of the verb was used in 1657 (meaning to disown); the participles occur rarely.

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