In very rare cases, a society and its institutions will accept an act of disownment.

In particular, marrying a non-Quaker became grounds for disownment or being "read out of the meeting."

What if it got back that I was friendly to some passing stranger the morning after my disownment, as if nothing had happened?

It ended with words of disownment.

This disownment was confirmed by his quarterly meeting and then by the yearly meeting as well.

When Wilbur appealed his disownment, his quarterly meeting divided.

"Flossie's" first, and compulsory, marriage, to an alcoholic, had been soundly condemned by her father, to the point of her disownment.

Members of the Religious Society of Friends were forbidden to support the local militias, or faced disownment by the Quakers.

I threw out memories of my disownment on top of my shield, including Mirand's calling me on my tendency to evil.

Some LGBT Palestinians have relocated to Israel, often fleeing harsh intolerance that includes physical abuse, death, or disownment.

Many Quakers in England and New England were shocked and unhappy about the Beans' disownment, as the Beans had proven themselves devout Friends and apt ministers.

It is the disownment of the surety of being as less useful than the constant questioning of being, the magnitude of the non-form that reveals the "truth" of life better than transparent and empty platitudes.

These numbers are likely the result of the TouchPad's heroic tale of redemption: a launch followed by unfavorable reviews, tragic sales, disownment by HP, and finally a fire sale that brought it to glory and another manufacturing run.

A Kiwi-Asian, Emily considers herself a banana (yellow on the outside, white on the inside) but her father Dr Chu's has a different perspective, and his past threats of disownment on her sister hangs over Emily's head.

The Committee arranged for the disownment of David Duncan, the outspoken leader of the Manchester dissidents and published a "Declaration of some fundamental principles of Christian Truth", which was, however, rejected by Yearly Meeting 1872.

Unitarian tendencies were found amongst some Quakers in both England and Ireland in these years and the Liverpool abolitionist William Rathbone's sympathetic treatment of them led to his disownment by the Friends and the passage of his family to Unitarianism.

Their movement was reinforced by the expulsion (1 May 1844) of nine students from the theological academy of the congregationalists at Glasgow, under Ralph Wardlaw, D.D. [q. v.] ; and by the disownment (1845) of nine congregational churches holding similar views.