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Freeing from evil spirits
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dispossession
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, noun of action from dispossess .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of dispossessing someone of something. 2 The casting out of an evil spirit that has possessed someone; exorcism.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law [syn: eviction , legal ouster ] freeing from evil spirits [syn: exorcism ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dispossession \Dis`pos*ses"sion\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]possession.] The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed. --Bp. Hall. (Law) The putting out of possession, wrongfully or otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, ...
Usage examples of dispossession.
Holding sovereignty to be a private estate, the feudal lawyers very properly distinguish between governments de facto and governments de jure, and argue very logically that violent dispossession of a prince does not invalidate his title.
And sometimes Koli women, their hands stinking of pomfret guts and crabmeat, jostle arrogantly to the head of a Colaba bus‑queue, with their crimson (or purple) saris hitched brazenly up between their legs, and a smarting glint of old defeats and dispossessions in their bulging and somewhat fishy eyes.
In fact, it is a Jacobin and plebeian invasion, and, consequently, conquest, dispossession, and extermination, - in Gard, a swarm of National Guards copy the jacquerie: the dregs of the Comtat come to the surface and cover Vaucluse with its scum.
After Alfred's dispossession of the Church, his excommunication by the Pope, the Crusade against him and his final declaration of non-communion with Rome, every senior cleric in his kingdom had left.