unpossessed

This also suggests a possible explanation for the subtle difference in meaning that The Ridger has suggested; the adjectivity of the unpossessed gerund puts the on the doer of the action, while the verbiness of the possessed gerund retains focus on the action.

(Almost) Zero Tolerance, and linearly separable blogrolls « Motivated Grammar 2009

Everything is good ... as long as it is unpossessed.

WHEN GOD LAUGHS 2010

I claimed, I think, a while back, I could offer such a why, or a how or both, and how: by falsifying proceedings, by pretending to the possession of unpossessed knowledge.

Rooftop 2010

Though he is quite comfortable quoting Heidegger, he is the antithesis of a Heideggerian - uninterested in medieval agrarianism and utterly unpossessed of any religious affectation about the nature of work.

enowning enowning 2009

Though he is quite comfortable quoting Heidegger, he is the antithesis of a Heideggerian - uninterested in medieval agrarianism and utterly unpossessed of any religious affectation about the nature of work.

Archive 2009-06-01 enowning 2009

There's no such thing as a free lunch and there's no such thing as an unpossessed person.

Archive 2008-04-01 2008

He carried me over many fields of mortal men and over much land untilled and unpossessed, where savage wild-beasts roam through shady coombes, until I thought never again to touch the life-giving earth with my feet.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

It was like a beautiful woman left unpossessed who fades like old ink into parchment.

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

Each detail then peeks out at us like an aspect of the woman's spirit, unpossessed but also undirected and unable to reach out to passers-by or to return whatever desire the watching generates.

Strange Affinities: A Partial Return to Wordsworthian Poetics After Modernism 2003

It was like a beautiful woman left unpossessed who fades like old ink into parchment.

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005