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dispossessor en · NOUN

Etymology

From dispossess + -or.

Meanings

1. One who dispossesses.
   • the Heirs (blessed be God) are yet surviving, and likely to outlive all Heirs of their dispossessors 1661, Abraham Cowley, A Discourse by Way of Vision Concerning the Government of Oliver Cromwell:
   • Europeans take possession of Native Aerican lands, to be sure, but at the same time, Native Americans take supernatural possession of their dispossessors. 2000, Renée L. Bergland, The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects, →ISBN, page 3:

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