noun
- acts of refusing to acknowledge or accept as one’s own; rejections of responsibility or connection
Usage: plural form of disownment
Examples
- The family’s disownments of their troubled son left him feeling completely alone.
- Multiple disownments by former allies weakened the politician’s position.
- The company faced several disownments of responsibility for the environmental damage.
- His repeated disownments of his past mistakes frustrated his supporters.
- The disownments came one after another as the scandal grew worse.
- She documented all the disownments she had experienced from her community.