exhereditation

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin exhereditare, exhereditatum (disinherit).

Noun[edit]

exhereditation (uncountable)

  1. A disinheriting; disherison.
    • 2001, Roland Tanner, The Late Medieval Scottish Parliament: Politics and the Three Estates, 1424-1488:
      James Crichton's mother was a Douglas of Strathbrock, and the earl of Douglas would aid Robert Douglas at some point before June 1455 in the exhereditation of the king and his successors' from the lands