misown

M3I1S1O1W4N1

verb

To own, claim, or appropriate wrongly or amiss; fail to own; disown.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

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

present singular third person misowns · participle present misowning · participle past misowned · past misowned

  1. transitiveTo own, claim, or appropriate wrongly or amiss; fail to own; disown.

    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 […]

    1977, La Fayette Ron Hubbard, Pat Brice, Laurel Rock, Have you lived before this life?
    2 more examples

    We feel as if we are ourselves afflicted or at ease when a son or a wife or an^([sic]) person dear to us is so (2) we also misattribute or misown properties which rightly belong not to us as conscious persons but to our bodies.

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

    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.

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

Origin

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