What's the difference between disinherit and inheritance?

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.

Inheritance


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities.
  • (n.) That which is or may be inherited; that which is derived by an heir from an ancestor or other person; a heritage; a possession which passes by descent.
  • (n.) A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction.
  • (n.) Possession; ownership; acquisition.
  • (n.) Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation.
  • (n.) A perpetual or continuing right which a man and his heirs have to an estate; an estate which a man has by descent as heir to another, or which he may transmit to another as his heir; an estate derived from an ancestor to an heir in course of law.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Alleles in this region can be exchanged between X and Y chromosomes and are therefore inherited as if autosomal.
  • (2) Seven males have been observed carrying both inherited tritan and red-green defects.
  • (3) Pedigree studies have suggested that there may be an inherited predisposition to many apparently nonfamilial colorectal cancers and a genetic model of tumorigenesis in common colorectal cancer has been proposed that includes the activation of dominantly acting oncogenes and the inactivation of growth suppressor genes.
  • (4) In neither case has a significant elevation in inherited genetic effects or cancer been detected in the offspring of exposed individuals.
  • (5) When power-transformed scores are used to eliminate skewness, there is evidence for one distribution and it is not possible to distinguish single gene from multifactorial (polygenic or cultural) inheritance.
  • (6) Asymptomatic relatives that have inherited the disease probably can be detected with this method.
  • (7) This recently reported inherited syndrome should be recognized by pathologists because of major risk of cardiac myxoma.
  • (8) This situation highlights the potential importance of molecules with different inheritance patterns in elucidating complex cases of reticulate evolution.
  • (9) Approximately 20 inherited disorders of kidney transport occurring in man have so far been defined.
  • (10) Neurospora crassa mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid shows strict uniparental inheritance in sexual crosses, with a notable absence of mixtures and recombinant types that appear frequently in heteroplasmons.
  • (11) The overall results indicate an inherited impairment of 3-HSD activity confined only to C-21 steroid substrates and, thus, suggest the existence of at least two 3-HSD isoenzymes under independent genetic regulation.
  • (12) About one out of three profoundly deaf children has an autosomal recessive form of inherited deafness.
  • (13) In considering nutrition and circadian rhythms, time-of-eating behavior is an inherited, genetically controlled pattern that can be phase-shifted by conditioning or training.
  • (14) Given the financial crisis this government inherited, we had no choice but to make significant savings.
  • (15) The pupils at the Royal Blind School, Edinburgh, were surveyed and it was found that 40% of the 100 pupils had definitely inherited severe eye disease.
  • (16) However, as the males have not reproduced, it is not possible to rule out X-linked dominant inheritance.
  • (17) However, family members born at 50% risk can find out if they have inherited the mutant gene only if family analyses are possible.
  • (18) Proposed models for the inheritance of locus-specific methylation phenotypes in somatic cells include those in which there is stable inheritance of a methylation pattern such that all cells contain a similarly methylated locus, as well as models in which the inheritance of methylation can be variable.
  • (19) It inherited an economy that was growing quite strongly but activity came to an abrupt halt last autumn and has flatlined ever since.
  • (20) An autosomal recessive mode of inheritance of this deficiency was found.