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Definition of Dispossessing
1. dispossess [v] - See also: dispossess
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dispossessing
Literary usage of Dispossessing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Home and Foreign Review (1864)
"... mother's rights for fear of dispossessing Frank Castlewood, and the little
sister's renunciation of her own rights for fear of dispossessing Philip. ..."
2. The Rights of Man to Property!: Being a Proposition to Make it Equal Among by Thomas Skidmore (1829)
"... justify the party injured, in dispossessing the aggressor, of the instrument
of his aggression. But the work which I thus present to the consideration ..."
3. An Introduction to the History of the Revolt of the American Colonies: Being by George Chalmers (1845)
"Their Purpose of dispossessing the Georgians. — Arrival of British Reinforcements.— The
Boundary Question between Georgia and Florida. ..."
4. The Red Man and the White Man in North America, from Its Discovery to the by George Edward Ellis (1882)
"Whatever compunctions may be felt by any among us as to our method of dispossessing
our aborigines, ..."
5. Institutes of Common and Statute Law by John Barbee Minor (1878)
"... for Wrongs done to Property in Chattels, without Dispossessing the Owner; WC lh.
Remedy where the Wrong results directly from force applied. ..."
6. Connecticut as a Colony and as a State: Or, One of the Original Thirteen by Forrest Morgan, Ellen Strong Bartlett, Frank R Holmes, Jonathan Trumbull (1904)
"... civilization could proceed only by dispossessing or assuming authority over
barbarians, no question of the rightfulness of slavery was likely to arise. ..."
7. A Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands by Hiram Bingham (1848)
"... of an old warrior—Manslaughter by a youth—Wailuku—Visit of the US frigate
Potomac—Plan for dispossessing the proprietors of the Sandwich Islands. ..."
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