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Dispossession

noun
1.
The expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law.  Synonyms: eviction, legal ouster.
2.
Freeing from evil spirits.  Synonym: exorcism.





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"Dispossession" Quotes from Famous Books



... this letter. They had been living in continual fear of dispossession since the first attack on the Breckenridge farm in '69. Now they felt that they would be free to follow the peaceful pursuits of their calling and began to improve their possessions, believing that, after all, ...
— With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga • W. Bert Foster


Words linked to "Dispossession" :   actual eviction, due process, summoning, dispossess, due process of law, retaliatory eviction, law, evocation, supernaturalism, ouster, jurisprudence


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