Both Uses of
dispossess
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- The worthy gentleman then became once more the life and soul of the society; being again reinstated in his old post of lion, from which high station the temporary distraction of their thoughts had for a moment dispossessed him.†
Chpt 15 *
- Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(dispossess) to take away possession of something -- especially real estate