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dispossessed

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dis·pos·sessed  (dsp-zst)
adj.
1. Deprived of possession.
2. Spiritually impoverished or alienated.
dispos·sessed n.
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Adj.1.dispossessed - physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security; "made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another"- James Stern
homeless, roofless
unfortunate - not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune; "an unfortunate turn of events"; "an unfortunate decision"; "unfortunate investments"; "an unfortunate night for all concerned"
dispossessed
adjective destitute, landless all kinds of displaced and dispossessed people


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Many of these bear with them the smart of real or fancied injuries; many consider themselves expatriated beings, wrongfully exiled from their hereditary homes, and the sepulchres of their fathers, and cherish a deep and abiding animosity against the race that has dispossessed them.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped.
Turn Of The Screw by James, Henry View in context
Each house is, as it necessarily must be, the judge of the elections, qualifications, and returns of its members; and whatever improvements may be suggested by experience, for simplifying and accelerating the process in disputed cases, so great a portion of a year would unavoidably elapse, before an illegitimate member could be dispossessed of his seat, that the prospect of such an event would be little check to unfair and illicit means of obtaining a seat.
Federalist Papers Authored by James Madison by Madison, James View in context
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