All 3 Uses
divest
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Don Quixote
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- Finding, then, that he was unable to resist his propensity, he resolved to divest himself of the instrument and cause of his prodigality and lavishness, to divest himself of wealth, without which Alexander himself would have seemed parsimonious;†
Chpt 1.39-40
- Finding, then, that he was unable to resist his propensity, he resolved to divest himself of the instrument and cause of his prodigality and lavishness, to divest himself of wealth, without which Alexander himself would have seemed parsimonious;†
Chpt 1.39-40
- He, as soon as he saw himself clothed like one in his senses, and divested of the appearance of a madman, entreated the chaplain to permit him in charity to go and take leave of his comrades the madmen.†
Chpt 2.1-2 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(divest) separate something from a person or firm -- such as to sell, or take, or remove
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)