dispossession
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /dɪspəˈzɛʃn̩/
dispossession
- The act of dispossessing someone of something.
- The casting out of an evil spirit that has possessed someone; exorcism.
- 1971, Keith Thomas (historian), Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 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.
- 1971, Keith Thomas (historian), Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 462:
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