What is "dispossessed"

Usage examples of "dispossessed".

Thomas explained that the raparees were bands of young men belonging to dispossessed families.

The queen saw once busy towns half emptied of their folk, grazing lands gone to bramble, deep forests infested with dispossessed men turned poachers and robbers, on every tor a ruined citadel or one marked for doom.

Poitiers about Easter time under escort of Earl Patrick and his bodyguard, the dispossessed Lusignans burst from ambush upon her convoy and tried to capture her, as it was said, for ransom to recoup their recent losses.

Count of Blois in Touraine, where Henry had dispossessed him, and the County of Mortaine, England offered the grand prizes for revolt.

Dispnzed and dispossessed of his inheritance, he would take the cross.

My infant son is dispossessed and in mortal danger, for he will certainly be murdered if his uncle finds him.

But I have seen the Chaos Spirit abroad in the land, listened to the screams of the dying, heard the cries of the dispossessed and widowed.

But think on this, Alexander: if you are dispossessed there will be those who will seek your death.

Kristan must have involved the dispossessed, those with no faction, who lived on the underside of urban society.

Nerlin and colluding with the remnants of Faction Reinal against the Decision Group, not to mention arming the dispossessed against the nobility.

He had known sentimental young ladies who had taken a memento of their dispossessed land to cherish in their trinket boxes.

All of this biblically inspired nonsense has taken deepest root in those dispossessed of their farmland in the last generation.

Why do dispossessed farmers have no congressional representatives to turn to?

So towns and villages continue to decay between the Canadian and the Mexican borders, and the dispossessed rural population despairs or rages.

McVeigh came from a rural family that had been, more or less, dispossessed a generation earlier.