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possessions .
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Examples
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So-called "possessionless" Sangaree formed the working class.
Starfishers Cook, Glen 1982
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Does Kartheiser, single, possessionless, doing brilliant make-believe for a living, have anxieties in this regard by any chance?
Vincent Kartheiser: 'I definitely do psychopathic. I don't try to, but it just sneaks out' 2010
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As I sat there so obviously jacketless and possessionless, it was clear that communication with these clowns was futile.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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As I sat there so obviously jacketless and possessionless, it was clear that communication with these clowns was futile.
"Friendly" Winnipeg Gio's blazé about coatcheck theft and employee criminal checks 2008
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The shock of finding herself homeless and possessionless was not nearly as great as the strangeness of realizing that someone wanted her dead.
Sonnet of the Sphinx Diana Killian 2006
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Christ and the apostles, possessionless and humble, should mean
HERESY IN THE MIDDLE AGES GORDON LEFF 1968
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They argued that the individual friars might still remain absolutely possessionless, even if the order had beautiful churches and comfortable monasteries.
An Introduction to the History of Western Europe James Harvey Robinson 1899
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The brute is possessionless because he does not labor.
Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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Separated from all the world, and as a homeless wanderer, or as a hermit in forest or desert, the pious man should live in beggar-garb, devoid of adornment, utterly possessionless, entirely isolated, indifferent to joy and grief, and dead to all emotions.
Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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Does Kartheiser, single, possessionless, doing brilliant make-believe for a living, have anxieties in this regard by any chance?
Culture | guardian.co.uk Tim Adams 2010
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