disownest

English

Verb

disownest

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative of disown
   • 1689, Richard Baxter, A Treatise of Knowledge and Love Compared. […], London: […] Tho. Parkhurst […], page 341:

     Therefore, O my soul, if men will not know thee, if thou were hated of all men for the cauſe of Chriſt and Righteouſneſs; If thine uprightneſs be imputed to thee as an odious crime; If thou be judged by the blind, malignant World, according to its gall and intereſt; If friends miſunderſtand thee; If Faction and every evil cauſe which thou diſowneſt, do revile thee, and riſe up againſt thee: It is enough, it is abſolutely enough, that thou art known of God: God is All; and All is nothing that is againſt him, or without him: If God be for thee who ſhall be againſt thee?

   • a. 1712, John Norris, A Practical Treatise Concerning Humility. Design’d for the Furtherance and Improvement of That Great Christian Vertue, Both in the Minds and Lives of Men., 5th edition, London: […] Edmund Parker, […], published 1722, page 119:

     As much as to ſay, that one that is no Receiver, but owes all that he has to himſelf, can do no more than that, to glory in what he has; and therefore as thou art a Receiver and a Debtor, canſt not with any face pretend to any ſuch thing, ſo if thou doſt, thou thereby diſowneſt thy Benefactor, and ſetteſt up for thy ſelf.

   • 1727, Thomas Fuller, Introductio ad Prudentiam: or, Directions, Counsels, and Cautions, Tending to Prudent Management of Affairs in Common Life. […], second part, London: […] Stephen Austen […], page 128:

     Tho’ thou art not to publiſh thy Faults in a ſhameleſs, impudent Way; yet if (when they are viſible) thou art told of them, thou diſowneſt, excuſest, or even extenuateſt them, thou doſt thereby but ſet them more in the Light, and makeſt them greater.