unpossessing

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English[edit]

Verb[edit]

unpossessing

  1. present participle and gerund of unpossess

Adjective[edit]

unpossessing (not comparable)

  1. Lacking possessions; poor.
    • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
      Thou unpossessing bastard! Dost thou think / If I would stand against thee, would the reposal / Of any trust, virtue, or worth in thee / Make thy words faithed? No.
    • 1993, Fred B. Craddock, John H. Hayes, Carl R. Holladay, Preaching Through the Christian Year, page 504:
      Yahweh is not an unconcerned transcendent Deity but the caretaker of the dispossessed and the unpossessing.
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