Definition of "exheredation" []

• A disinheriting; disherison. (noun)

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• "What has ever come of them but divorce and exheredation, sometimes worse fate, to the ambitious intruder?"
• "It was necessary, on this account, that Lord Sinclair should disinherit his eldest son; and "as it would," says Sir Walter Scott, "have been highly impolitic to have alleged his forfeiture for treason as a cause of the deed, the slaughter of the Schaws was given as a reason for his exheredation.""