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Unpossess

Unpossess \Un`pos*sess"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + possess.] To be without, or to resign, possession of. [Obs.]

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unpossess

vb. (context obsolete transitive English) To be without, or to resign, possession of.

Usage examples of "unpossess".

The Mendicants moved abroad to draw into their pores each scant ray of the slowing sun, drug pipes hanging cold in their lax hands, for a time unpossessed by oracular visions.

He seems to have been for Müller little more than a sort of supernatural clergyman interested in the congregation of tradesmen and others in Bristol who were his saints, and in the orphanages and other enterprises, but unpossessed of any of those vaster and wilder and more ideal attributes with which the human imagination elsewhere has invested him.