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Dispossession
//dɪspəˈzɛʃn̩// noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act of dispossessing someone of something. countable, uncountable
"At times, the assimilationist paradigm has facilitated the physical dispossession of Native lands and the suppression or eradication of Native institutions, culture, and identity by the political branches of the federal government."
- 2 the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law wordnet
- 3 The casting out of an evil spirit that has possessed someone; exorcism. countable, uncountable
"There had been a series of such dispossessions since the beginning of Elizabeth's reign involving many clergy, particularly those of vehement Protestant sympathies."
- 4 freeing from evil spirits wordnet
Etymology
From dis- + possession.
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