| The war was occasioned by Black Hawk disowning the treaty and attempting to repossess the territory. |
| The father joined in the upbraiding, the disowning of an undutiful daughter. |
| Newton learned to exploit the commercial press by secretly publishing his works and disowning them as piracies. |
| Poor old Nick Clegg knows it's all over but he hopes a mixture of sackcloth and ashes and disowning his past will save him. |
| I would not try to convince him that he was wrong, by disowning a truth because he abused it. |
| He had, moreover, no intention of disowning his origin when once he could feel safe in assuming his true status. |
