possessionlessness
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possessionlessness (uncountable)
- The state or condition of having no possessions.
- 1992, Francesca Polletta, “Politicizing Childhood: The 1980 Zurich Burns Movement”, in Social Text, number 33, page 95:
- Their rebellion . . . translated their dispossession into the free possessionlessness of childhood.
- 1996, Gordon Leff, “Review of Olivi's Peaceable Kingdom. A Reading of the Apocalypse Commentary by David Burr”, in The English Historical Review, volume 111, number 442, page 682:
- Olivi in his commentary on the Apocalypse sanctified Francisan poverty, in the extreme form of absolute penury as well as possessionlessness attributed by the Franciscan Spirituals to St. Francis.
- 1996, Mavis Fenn, “Two Notions of Poverty in the Pāli Canon,”, in Journal of Buddhist Ethics, volume 3, page 113:
- More appropriate here is a definition of poverty as "possessionlessness," an understanding conveyed by the Pāli term akiñcana ("without anything," "lacking possessions").
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- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.