disherison

English

Etymology

See disherit.

Noun

disherison

1. (archaic) The act of disheriting, disinheritance.
   • 1652, Joseph Hall, The Sons of God Led by the Spirit of God:

     Many a one here is born to a fair estate; and is stripped of it, whether by the just disherison of his offended Father, or else by the power or circumvention of an adversary, or by his own mis-government and unthriftiness.

References

• “disherison”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.