expropriation
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ɛksˌpɹoʊpɹiˈeɪʃən/
Noun

expropriation

  1. The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to private property; the act of depriving of private propriety rights.
    • c. 1648, Walter Montagu, Devout Essaies.
      The soul of man then is capable of a state of much peace and equanimity, in the exterior bands and agitations; but this capacity is rather an effect of the expropriation of our reason, then a vertue resulting from her single capacity.
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