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Definition of Possessionless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Possessionless
Literary usage of Possessionless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Feminism in Germany and Scandinavia by Katharine Susan Anthony (1915)
"This is, of course, only one of the many instances in which the interests of the
possessionless sex and the possessionless class tend to coincide. ..."
2. History of the German People from the First Authentic Annals to the Present by Charles Francis Horne (1916)
"possessionless labor, also follow the broad course of social evolution. For almost
a century, until about 1850, the. classes of ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1872)
"That a worthless, possessionless, brainless minority — Mr. B right's
true 'residuum'—could ride roughshod over all that had sense or substance in Paris, ..."
4. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by James Harvey Robinson (1918)
"They argued that the individual friars might still remain absolutely possessionless,
even if the order had beautiful churches and comfortable monasteries. ..."
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