What's the difference between disinherit and exheredate?
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.