All 3 Uses of
divest
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Even that night as he stumbled homewards along Jones's Road he had felt that some power was divesting him of that sudden-woven anger as easily as a fruit is divested of its soft ripe peel.†
Chpt 2 *
- Even that night as he stumbled homewards along Jones's Road he had felt that some power was divesting him of that sudden-woven anger as easily as a fruit is divested of its soft ripe peel.†
Chpt 2
- A brief anger had often invested him but he had never been able to make it an abiding passion and had always felt himself passing out of it as if his very body were being divested with ease of some outer skin or peel.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
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(divest) separate something from a person or firm -- such as to sell, or take, or remove