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unpossess en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + possess.

Meanings

1. (rare, transitive) To be without, or to resign, possession of.
   • Users can select whether the Soul should continue to refer to the original Body (B_C on the host A) or it should unpossess the old Body and possess a one on the host B. 1999, Proceedings: 19th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, page 203:
   • This is a farce. Since when did I receive the gun (which is possessing it) and then unpossess it, and, then possess it again (all from 1984 to 1985) . 1995, Kuffel V. United States of America, page 90:
   • These two events are called when this player controller possesses and unpossesses a pawn. 2021, Kassandra Arevalo, Matthew Tovar, Jingtian Li, Creating Games with Unreal Engine, Substance Painter, & Maya, pages 12-156:
2. To free from an obsession that has taken hold of (someone)
   • She was posssessed, Nausicaa was, and no amount of reminding her of Odysseus's age and marital status could unpossess her . 1987, Fiction - Volume 8, Issue 2, page 46:
   • The hold that is given over I unpossess, so hangeth now in balance Of war my peace, reward of all my pain, At Mountzon thus I restless rest in Spain. 1879, Sir Thomas Wyatt, The Poetical Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, page 176:
   • […] but she also exits as a new person, for to be free, she had to unpossess herself of her "possession," her passion. 1985, Alice Eileen Jurish, And what is Fate But Love?:

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