- past tense form of dispossess.
- past participle of dispossess.
dispossessed
Example Sentences
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Dispossessed of his father and fatherland, a rootless Eastern European Jew on a continent gripped by nationalist fever, Roth’s self-identity was especially tenuous.
From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 2023
Ursula K. LeGuin's 1974 book, "The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia," is exemplary in this regard.
From Salon • Feb. 19, 2022
That history informs the interplanetary cultural constructs in Le Guin’s great works of the 1960s and 1970s: Planet of Exile, City of Illusions, The Word for World Is Forest and The Dispossessed.
From Nature • Feb. 22, 2018
Part of why books like Left Hand and the one I consider her greatest masterpiece, The Dispossessed, work so well is that they’re also compulsively readable.
From Slate • Jan. 24, 2018
Dispossessed knights, faidits of all kinds, brought their swords to its defence; Catharan bishops and ministers sought it when hard pressed, or made it a resting-place in their arduous and dangerous mission-work.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles
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