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noun

Dispossession n.

The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed.

(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.

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Etymology of 'Dispossession'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dispossession" Quotes from Famous Books

... center to it all; though the center, for Jack, was Valerie, exquisite, mildly radiant, not a hint on her of dispossession or of doom; but Imogen, white and rapt and grave, had looked almost as wonderful as on the day when she had first dawned upon ...

— A Fountain Sealed • Anne Douglas Sedgwick

... notice of Sherwood dates from the days of Henry the Second, when William Peverel had control and profit of the district under the Crown. After his dispossession, a lady named Matilda de Caux and her husband held the office of Chief Foresters. In Edward the First's time this office was seized by the Crown, and granted, as a special mark of favour, to persons ...

— The Dukeries • R. Murray Gilchrist

... the statistics of a Government which, it is known, seeks to make its showing as favorable as possible to the existing regime. They make it clear that a rapid process of the dispossession of the industrial working, the middle and the small farming classes has been going on unceasingly. If the process was so marked in 1900 what must it be now? All of the factors operating to impoverish the farming population of the United States ...

— Great Fortunes from Railroads • Gustavus Myers

... Everlasting Rest," he declares his conviction of the reality and authenticity of stories of ghosts, apparitions, haunted houses, &c. He placed full faith in a tale, current among the people of his day, of the "dispossession of the Devil out of many persons together in a room in Lancashire, at the prayer of some godly ministers." In his "Dying Thoughts," he says, "I have had many convincing proofs of witches, the contracts they have made with devils, and the power which they have received ...

— Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II • Charles Upham