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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"
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
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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