Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Deprived of possession.
- adjective Spiritually impoverished or alienated.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having lost one's self-possession or self-command.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
dispossess . - adjective
homeless - adjective
impoverished
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security
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Examples
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If you were poor, whether at home or in some Third World country, you were one of the 'dispossessed'-even if you had never possessed anything to dispossess you of.
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Well the tent cities of the dispossessed are a fine approximation and are likely larger than the 'villes of the' 30's, as there are more of us.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Well the tent cities of the dispossessed are a fine approximation and are likely larger than the 'villes of the' 30's, as there are more of us.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Well the tent cities of the dispossessed are a fine approximation and are likely larger than the 'villes of the' 30's, as there are more of us.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Well the tent cities of the dispossessed are a fine approximation and are likely larger than the 'villes of the' 30's, as there are more of us.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Of the 1079 households identified as dispossessed and affected by group areas legislation in the Knysna claim, 822 were classified coloured and 257 classified African.
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More colleges are offering courses in "Whiteness Studies" as white Americans cope with becoming what one commentator calls a "dispossessed majority group."
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• More colleges are offering courses in "Whiteness Studies" as white Americans cope with becoming what one commentator calls a "dispossessed majority group."
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It's the non-vote by people who previously flocked to vote Labour that's most significant, not the fact that a small minority of the self-defined as dispossessed will always want to vote for a racist or radical extremist demagogue party that offers easy solutions.
Bloggers4Labour 2009
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Its a wonderful feeling to become 'dispossessed' from ones possessions!
Sophie Keller: How Happy Is... 5 Ways To Revamp Your House Without Moving 2009
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