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dispossession

WordNet
  1. (n) dispossession
    the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law
  2. (n) dispossession
    freeing from evil spirits
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Dispossession
    The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed.
  2. Dispossession
    (Law) The putting out of possession, wrongfully or otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no matter in what title; -- called also ouster.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) dispossession
    The act of putting out of possession, or the state of being dispossessed.
  2. (n) dispossession
    The act of relieving or freeing from demoniac possession, or the like.
  3. (n) dispossession
    In law, same as ouster.
Quotations
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Cf. F. dépossession,

Usage in the news

THE POLITICS OF DISPOSSESSION The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969-1994. nytimes.com

With the global financial community in free fall, it's time for the music industry to get together and do what it does best: Record a music video to raise money for the dispossessed. blog.mysanantonio.com

Professional organizers frequently urge clients to photograph objects they have trouble letting go of, as an assist to "dispossession," said Catherine Roster, research director for the National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization. nytimes.com

Hamdeen Sabahy, a champion for Egypt's dispossessed . cnn.com

"All my sympathies were for the downtrodden, the dispossessed, the underdogs of the social order, and a car like that filled me with shame -- not just for myself but for living in a world that allowed such things to be in it". nytimes.com

The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin Avon, 341 pp. nybooks.com

In a New Exhibition Milton Rogovin Evokes the World of Buffalo's Dispossessed. nytimes.com

Jewish groups at a meeting in Prague have urged countries in Eastern Europe to compensate Jews dispossessed of property during the Holocaust before it's too late. 1.whdh.com

A story of dispossessions and reconnections in Hawai'i. honoluluweekly.com

Among her novels are The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, both winners of the Nebula and Hugo awards. nybooks.com

Since we are geographically challenged and dispossessed of a GPS thing, we also explored the City of Cleveland, Ohio. timesobserver.com

Usage in literature

Steering is to leave here; you need never be dispossessed during your lifetime. "Sally of Missouri" by R. E. Young

In all truly Christian and charitable cities refuges should be built for temporarily dispossessed, homeless, and hungry heads of families. "The Dew of Their Youth" by S. R. Crockett

What authority had any official to dispossess honest people from their homes in times of peace? "Greener Than You Think" by Ward Moore

An expatriated Irishman, a dispossessed landlord, a man without one high ambition, a mere mocker of enthusiasm of every kind. "Gossamer" by George A. Birmingham

Another assault and another desperate struggle finally dispossessed the garrison of the house. "From Fort Henry to Corinth" by Manning Ferguson Force

Acting as General for the Church, he carried his arms against the petty tyrants of Romagna, whom he dispossessed and extirpated. "New Italian sketches" by John Addington Symonds

He was sorry that he had dispossessed any one. "The Eyes of the Woods" by Joseph A. Altsheler

The Czech would return to his own country and the dispossessed farmer would become a Communist. "The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2" by Henry Baerlein

Then the early whites, dispossessing the red men and steadily increasing. "All Afloat" by William Wood

Probably at no period did he aspire after supremacy, or expect to dispossess Cecil. "Sir Walter Ralegh" by William Stebbing

Usage in poetry
From shambles of the Dispossessed;
From Croesus in his sty;
From old Democracy obsessed
By fiends about to die:
"A Keynote [Extract]" by Bernard O Dowd Author object (77)
One day a day will dawn
Will see me dispossessed --
An empty nest whence singing-birds have flown.
Who shall refill the nest?
"Recompense: (For Lord Kilhacken)" by Katharine Tynan Author object (417)
POLEMIUS.
Oh, my Claudius, would to Jove
That all this could dispossess me
Of my dark foreboding fancies,
Of the terrors that oppress me!--
"The Purgatory Of St. Patrick - Act II" by Denis Florence MacCarthy
Both cannot govern in one soul;
Then let self–love be dispossessed;
The love of God deserves the whole,
And will not dwell with so despised a guest.
"Divine Love Endures No Rival" by William Cowper Author object (696)
They are not gone though lost to observation,
And dispossessed of those dear forms of clay,
Though dust and ashes speak of desolation;
The spirit-presence--this is ours alway.
"Not Gone" by Hattie Howard
Planets that shine on what I so adore,
Now thrown, the hour is late, in careless rest,
Protect that sleep, which I may watch no more,
I, the cast out, dismissed and dispossessed.
"Mahomed Akram's Appeal To The Stars" by Laurence Hope