Definition of Dispossessed

1. Adjective. Physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security. "Made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another"

Exact synonyms: Homeless, Roofless
Similar to: Unfortunate
Derivative terms: Homeless, Homeless, Homelessness

Definition of Dispossessed

1. Verb. (past of dispossess) ¹

2. Adjective. homeless ¹

3. Adjective. impoverished ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dispossessed

1. dispossess [v] - See also: dispossess

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dispossessed

dispositifs
dispositing
disposition
dispositional
dispositionalism
dispositionalist
dispositionalists
dispositioned
dispositioning
dispositions
dispositive
dispositively
dispositor
disposits
dispossess
dispossessed (current term)
dispossesses
dispossessing
dispossession
dispossessions
dispossessor
dispossessors
dispost
disposted
disposting
disposts
disposure
disposures
disprad
dispraise

Literary usage of Dispossessed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Action of Ejectment and Concurrent Remedies for the by Martin L. Newell (1892)
"When the Plaintiff is Subsequently dispossessed. ... In New York it has been held that, if a plaintiff is dispossessed by a person claiming under the ..."

2. The Annals of Roger de Hoveden: Comprising the History of England and of by Roger, Roger of Hoveden, Henry Thomas Riley (1853)
"... and, because he refused, they dispossessed him of all his manors, with the sole exception of the manor of Eipon, to which the archbishop had retired; ..."

3. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"When third persons will be dispossessed in favour of the ture being confirmed. ... When third persons will be dispossessed in favour of the remainder- man. ..."

4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1888)
"not now two claimants of the same altar of which the dispossessed had the better title,' Dodwell, with Cherry and Mr. Robert Nelson, returned to the ..."

5. The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History by John Lothrop Motley (1868)
"... of the fourth, dispossessed of her father's broad domains, degraded from the rank of sovereign to be lady forester of her own provinces by her cousin; ..."

6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"After obtaining the title, he fraudulently dispossessed the complainants and asserted the right of ownership in himself. The prayer of the bill was to ..."

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