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to take away possession of something — especially real estateIn the form, dispossessed, the word is often used as a noun to refer to people who are impoverished (poor—in any of different ways such as without physical or spiritual comforts, or without rights)
- In the countersuit she charged that the lenders were conspiring to dispossess her of her property.
dispossess = to take away possession of something — especially real estate
- attempting to ease the suffering of the dispossessed people
- Once, the first time, when the rent of the house was two months behind and the landlord was threatening dispossession, it was Felipe Rivera, the scrub-boy in the poor, cheap clothes, worn and threadbare, who laid sixty dollars in gold on May Sethby's desk.Jack London -- The Night-Born
- Too many have been dispossessed of their heritage, and we have banded together in brotherhood so as to do something about it.Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man
- Green pressed his claim and got the estates; the dispossessed nobleman shot himself and died without issue.Gilbert K. Chesterton -- The Wisdom Of Father Brown
- ...Give up your violence and oppression and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing my people, declares the Sovereign LORD.Ezekiel 45:9 (NIV)
- ...You are now about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities that have walls up to the sky.Deuteronomy 9:1 (NIV)
- We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped.Henry James -- The Turn of the Screw
- To-morrow some other little problem may be submitted to my notice which will in turn dispossess the fair French lady and the infamous Upwood.Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- I had resolved to be calm about my dispossession, to keep my mind on the goal I had given myself.V.S. Naipaul -- A Bend in the River
- He would be dispossessed, of me and of himself.Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
- This was more than they had ever expected from the town that only a few months before saw them as the dispossessed.W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game
- Jan Hinckart was dispossessed by Farnese, and Leonard I, the Thurn and Taxis Grand Master, reinstated.Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
- Or putting dispossesses under the door because you never actually see him.Don DeLillo -- Underworld
- Restless Amata lay, her swelling breast Fir'd with disdain for Turnus dispossess'd, And the new nuptials of the Trojan guest.Virgil -- The Aeneid
- Will you do as I ask, or will you dispossess me and lead the Varden yourself?Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
- They walked slowly toward the gibbet, and the birds took indignant wing, cawing and circling like a mob of angry dispossessed peasants.Stephen King -- The Gunslinger
- After all, they were needy and hungry and despised and dispossessed, and sinners the world over were in the driver's seat.Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- The organization dispossesses him for the landlord.Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Why does my blood thus muster to my heart, Making both it unable for itself And dispossessing all the other parts Of necessary fitness?William Shakespeare -- Measure for Measure
(editor's note: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.)
dispossessed = deprived (had something taken away from them)
(editor's note: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.)
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