dispossession
English edit
Etymology edit
dis- + possession
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dispossession (countable and uncountable, plural dispossessions)
- The act of dispossessing someone of something.
- The casting out of an evil spirit that has possessed someone; exorcism.
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 462:
- There had been a series of such dispossessions since the beginning of Elizabeth's reign involving many clergy, particularly those of vehement Protestant sympathies.