misown

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ own.

Verb

misown (third-person singular simple present misowns, present participle misowning, simple past and past participle misowned)

1. (transitive) To own, claim, or appropriate wrongly or amiss; fail to own; disown.
   • 1977, La Fayette Ron Hubbard, Pat Brice, Laurel Rock, Have you lived before this life?:

     A thetan very often carries with him a theta body which he mocked up on the past track and which is a number of facsimiles of old bodies he has misowned and is carrying along with him as control mechanisms which he uses […]

   • 2000, Shyama Kumar Chattopadhyaya, The Philosophy of Sankar's Advaita Vedanta:

     We feel as if we are ourselves afflicted or at ease when a son or a wife or an person dear to us is so ... we also misattribute or misown properties which rightly belong not to us as conscious persons but to our bodies.

   • 2012, The Subtle Perception Illuminator, thesubtleperceptionilluminator.com/2012/06/20/372/:

     So any person who is unaware of their entities and how the person themselves assumes ownership of anything that is in their space regardless of who or where or when it came from and hence misowns identification, can be in a very confused state and not even know it.

Derived terms

• misowned
• misowning

Anagrams

• minows