All 31 Uses of
dispossess
in
Invisible Man by Ellison
- And it was as though I myself was being dispossessed of some painful yet precious thing which I could not bear to lose; something confounding, like a rotted tooth that one would rather suffer indefinitely than endure the short, violent eruption of pain that would mark its removal.†
Chpt 13
- And with this sense of dispossession came a pang of vague recognition: this junk, these shabby chairs, these heavy, old-fashioned pressing irons, zinc wash tubs with dented bottoms-all throbbed within me with more meaning than there should have been: And why did I, standing in the crowd, see like a vision my mother hanging wash on a cold windy day, so cold that the warm clothes froze even before the vapor thinned and hung stiff on the line, and her hands white and raw in theā¦†
Chpt 13
- Hell, they been dispossessed, you crazy sonofabitch, get out the way!†
Chpt 13
- Dispossessed?†
Chpt 13
- That's a good word, 'Dispossessed'!†
Chpt 13
- 'Dispossessed,' eighty-seven years and dispossessed of what?†
Chpt 13
- 'Dispossessed,' eighty-seven years and dispossessed of what?†
Chpt 13
- So who was dispossessed?†
Chpt 13
- So who's being dispossessed?†
Chpt 13
- So we've been dispossessed, and what's more, he thinks he's God.†
Chpt 13
- "We're dispossessed," I sang at the top of my voice, "dispossessed and we want to pray.†
Chpt 13
- "We're dispossessed," I sang at the top of my voice, "dispossessed and we want to pray.†
Chpt 13
- Too many have been dispossessed of their heritage, and we have banded together in brotherhood so as to do something about it.
Chpt 14 *dispossessed = deprived (had something taken away from them)
- Because, Brother, the enemies of man are dispossessing the world!†
Chpt 14
- I thought-But now the song was ending and the building rang with applause, yells, until the chant burst from the rear and spread: No more dispossessing of the dispossessed!†
Chpt 16
- I thought-But now the song was ending and the building rang with applause, yells, until the chant burst from the rear and spread: No more dispossessing of the dispossessed!†
Chpt 16
- No more dispossessing of the dispossessed!†
Chpt 16
- No more dispossessing of the dispossessed!†
Chpt 16
- Do you think he died of dispossession?†
Chpt 16
- It's dispossess him!†
Chpt 16
- Dispossession!†
Chpt 16
- They've tried to dispossess us of our manhood and womanhood!†
Chpt 16
- Why, they even tried to dispossess us of our dislike of being dispossessed!†
Chpt 16
- Why, they even tried to dispossess us of our dislike of being dispossessed!†
Chpt 16
- These are the days of dispossession, the season of homelessness, the time of evictions.†
Chpt 16
- We'll be dispossessed of the very brains in our heads!†
Chpt 16
- Think about it, they've dispossessed us each of one eye from the day we're born.†
Chpt 16
- WE'LL BE DISPOSSESSED NO MORE!†
Chpt 16
- It was a symbolic poster of a group of heroic figures: An American Indian couple, representing the dispossessed past; a blond brother (in overalls) and a leading Irish sister, representing the dispossessed present; and Brother Tod Clifton and a young white couple (it had been felt unwise simply to show Clifton and the girl) surrounded by a group of children of mixed races, representing the future, a color photograph of bright skin texture and smooth contrast.†
Chpt 18
- It was a symbolic poster of a group of heroic figures: An American Indian couple, representing the dispossessed past; a blond brother (in overalls) and a leading Irish sister, representing the dispossessed present; and Brother Tod Clifton and a young white couple (it had been felt unwise simply to show Clifton and the girl) surrounded by a group of children of mixed races, representing the future, a color photograph of bright skin texture and smooth contrast.†
Chpt 18
- Look at that rumba, that suzy-q, he's Sambo-Boogie, Sambo-Woogie, you don't have to feed him, he sleeps collapsed, he'll kill your depression And your dispossession, he lives upon the sunshine of your lordly smile And only twenty-five cents, the brotherly two bits of a dollar because he wants me to eat.†
Chpt 20
Definition:
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(dispossess) to take away possession of something -- especially real estate