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disproperty en · VERB

Etymology

From dis- + property.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To strip of property; to dispossess (someone) of.
   • He still hath held them; that, to his power, he would Have made them mules, silenc'd their pleaders, and Disproperty'd their freedoms c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

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