Crossword clues for dispossession
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, no matter in what title; -- called also ouster.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, noun of action from dispossess.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of dispossessing someone of something. 2 The casting out of an evil spirit that has possessed someone; exorcism.
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]
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.