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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of disentitle.

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Examples

  • He said Walsh had "disentitled" himself to most forms of mitigation; an early guilty plea, genuine remorse and previous good character.

    Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie BreakingNews.ie / TCM 2010

  • He said Walsh had "disentitled" himself to the most fruitful forms of mitigation; an early guilty plea, genuine remorse and previous good character.

    ireland.com Breaking News 2010

  • The War on Terror continues to provide cover for the continued promotion of an unjust regime of property relations that empowers an entitled minority at the expense of a disentitled majority.

    The Lies and Crimes of 911: A Canadian View of the War on Terror's Origins 2008

  • By placing undue pressure on Canadian citizens to forego due legal process in Canada, the foreign state has disentitled itself from pursuing its recourse before the courts and attempting to show why extradition should legally proceed.

    Archive 2008-07-27 2008

  • "Acknowledgement of debts in the amount of R77. 545 million have been signed and a total of R16. 6 million has been recovered from disentitled beneficiaries," said Skweyiya.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • These masses of disentitled people may enter into quasi-feudal social relations with those who own land in exchange for food and physical security.

    Peak Oil and the Mind Mumon 2005

  • There is but one topic on which they are all agreed -- that is, in their unanimous and unsparing abuse of the Irish landlords; and, however much they may be condemned as disentitled to belief on other subjects, on this their assertions are taken, by all parties, as authorities "true as holy writ."

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various

  • They are the physicians of the celestials in heaven, -- this vocation of theirs hath disentitled them (in the matter of Soma).

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • That any person who shall, with intent to prevent the voting of any such person, strike such person upon the nose, eye, mouth, or other feature, within one mile of any place of voting, within one week of any day of voting, shall be punishable by fine to the extent of twice his possessions, and shall be disentitled to vote forever after.

    Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 11, June 11, 1870 Various

  • The son that is begotten on a Sudra wife by persons of the three higher orders should always be regarded as disentitled to any share of the sire's wealth.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

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