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English noun: dispossession

1. dispossession (act) the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law


Synonymseviction, legal ouster


Broader (hypernym)due process, due process of law


Narrower (hyponym)actual eviction, ouster, retaliatory eviction


Domain categoryjurisprudence, law

2. dispossession (cognition) freeing from evil spirits


Synonymsexorcism


Broader (hypernym)supernaturalism


Part holonymevocation, summoning









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