Dispossession

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /dɪspəˈzɛʃnÌ©/

Full definition of dispossession

Noun

1. The act of dispossessing someone of something.
2. The casting out of an evil spirit that has possessed someone; exorcism.
• 1971, Keith Thomas, 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.