possessionless
English edit
Etymology edit
From possession + -less.
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Adjective edit
possessionless (comparative more possessionless, superlative most possessionless)
- Without possessions.
- 1915, Katherine Susan Anthony, Feminism in Germany and Scandinavia[1], page 148:
- This is, of course, only one of the many instances in which the interests of the possessionless sex and the possessionless class tend to coincide.
- 1981, Jamnalal Jain, transl., Dharma Ke Dasha Lakshana: Ten Characteristics of Religion[2], translation of original by Hukamacanda Bhārilla, page 23:
- Similarly, the naked, possessionless saints who observe complete vows of the […]
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References edit
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.