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Definition of Dispossessors
1. dispossessor [n] - See also: dispossessor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dispossessors
Literary usage of Dispossessors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Micah, Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakkuk by John Merlin Powis Smith, William Hayes Ward, Julius August Bewer (1911)
"... which read and they of the house of Jacob shall dispossess their dispossessors
and mean by the dispossessors esp. the Edomites who took the Negeb after ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1812)
"The invaders, the victors, the dispossessors, were Protestants ; the invaded,
the vanquished, the dispossessed, were Roman Catholics. ..."
3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1857)
"... in all its villanous adulterations, has been the curse of thousands among
their dispossessors, after being banished from the once popular side-board to ..."
4. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"... destroyed 1)111 the heirs, blessed be (;od, are yet surviving, and likely to
outlive all heirs of their dispossessors, besides their infamy. ..."
5. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"The Titans, of course, were not sullen servants like the angels, but were the
ancien regime itself ; of a rougher, more sombre make than their dispossessors ..."
6. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1893)
"... but by the above merciful dispensation of providence time good dispossessors
are stronger than the bad. If this account of the (livine nature be found a ..."
7. The Rights of Man to Property!: Being a Proposition to Make it Equal Among by Thomas Skidmore (1829)
"... nid their dispossessors, in this instance; then must it be, because the barons
and their Sovereign alone had rights ; the residue of the nation having ..."
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