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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

... pasha benefited by it too greatly not to desire further advantages, and the sultan had lost so much that he must needs make some attempt at recovery. Mahmud's annoyance was caused by the fact and nature of the dispossession rather than by its material extent. The descendant of the Os-manlis, ever implacable in his hatreds, who had allowed Syria, the cradle of his race, to be wrested from him, now awaited the hour of vengeance. Mehemet Ali knew himself to be strong enough ...

— History Of Egypt From 330 B.C. To The Present Time, Volume 12 (of 12) • S. Rappoport

... been for this wave of loneliness; this parching, astringent wind of sorrow that seemed to dry up the oil of his joints, evaporate the simple liquor of his thought, put out the vital sparkle in his eye; and now, latest act of dispossession, to milk his old veins of their warmth—if it had not been for this influence and prescience, Old Dalton might have run hardily quite a good little way into ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... involved them. When a choice was given him of two or three of the sees vacated by the deprivation of the nonjuring bishops, he declined the offer. He would not allow that there had been any real unlawfulness or irregularity in their dispossession, but as a matter of personal feeling he disliked the idea of accepting promotion under such circumstances. Although therefore, in many ways, he differed much in opinion from the Nonjurors, he possessed in a great degree their attachment and respect. Robert Nelson was ...

— The English Church in the Eighteenth Century • Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton

... plenipotentiary power both as to buying and selling. There were many underplots in this. No one need sell unless he chose to sell; but at this moment much land was held by no other title than that of Sulla's proscriptions. The present possessors were in daily fear of dispossession, by some new law made with the object of restoring their property to those who had been so cruelly robbed. These would be very glad to get any price in hand for land of which their tenure was so doubtful; and these were the men whom the "decemviri," ...

— Life of Cicero - Volume One • Anthony Trollope

Words linked to "Dispossession" : actual eviction, due process of law, exorcism, law, ouster, due process, supernaturalism, dispossess, legal ouster