Definition of Possessionless

1. Adjective. Without possessions. ¹

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Definition of Possessionless

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Possessionless

possessedness
possessednesses
possessee
possesser
possesses
possesseth
possessing
possession
possession is nine-tenths of the law
possession is nine points of the law
possession of interest
possessional
possessionary
possessioner
possessioners
possessionless
possessionlessness
possessions
possessival
possessive
possessive-pronoun
possessive adjective
possessive adjectives
possessive case
possessive cases
possessive determiner
possessive determiners
possessive pronoun
possessive pronouns
possessive suffix

Literary usage of Possessionless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Feminism in Germany and Scandinavia by Katharine Susan Anthony (1915)
"This is, of course, only one of the many instances in which the interests of the possessionless sex and the possessionless class tend to coincide. ..."

2. History of the German People from the First Authentic Annals to the Present by Charles Francis Horne (1916)
"possessionless labor, also follow the broad course of social evolution. For almost a century, until about 1850, the. classes of ..."

3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1872)
"That a worthless, possessionless, brainless minority — Mr. B right's true 'residuum'—could ride roughshod over all that had sense or substance in Paris, ..."

4. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by James Harvey Robinson (1918)
"They argued that the individual friars might still remain absolutely possessionless, even if the order had beautiful churches and comfortable monasteries. ..."

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