What's the difference between disherit and disinherit?

Disherit


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To disinherit; to cut off, or detain, from the possession or enjoyment of an inheritance.

Example Sentences:

Disinherit


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cut off from an inheritance or from hereditary succession; to prevent, as an heir, from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent.
  • (v. t.) To deprive of heritage; to dispossess.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There's no easy way of disinheriting your next of kin.
  • (2) David Willetts opened up the debate with The Pinch , Francis Beckett and Neil Boorman have weighed in with various versions of baby boomer mea culpa, and now it's over to the disinherited themselves.
  • (3) Speaking at a Conservative conference fringe , Barwell pointed out that his parents had decided to disinherit him and instead leave their wealth to his children.
  • (4) Now a middle-aged barrister and recovering from his addictions, he is a father himself, neglected by a wife consumed by motherhood, and battling with a mother determined to disinherit him in favour of a sharp eyed Irishman with a New Age foundation to run.
  • (5) The marquess – AKA Jamie Blandford, AKA notorious, rambunctious, formerly disgraced and once nearly disinherited heir apparent to the dukedom of Marlborough – is the cheeringly gristly knot at the heart of the first episode of The Aristocrats, a sprightly new two-parter that takes a surprisingly even-handed gander at the lives of the monumentally privileged as they yah and blah around their often endangered country piles.
  • (6) In 1969, he found himself the tribune of the poor and disinherited blacks and Hispanics, while middle-class Jews, Irish and Italians for various reasons turned their backs on him.

Words possibly related to "disherit"

Words possibly related to "disinherit"