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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
unpossessing en · ADJ
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(not-comparable) Lacking possessions; poor.
Thou unpossessing bastard! Dost thou think / If I would stand against thee, would the reposal / Of any trust, virtue, or worth in thee / Make thy words faithed? No.
c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:Yahweh is not an unconcerned transcendent Deity but the caretaker of the dispossessed and the unpossessing.
1993, Fred B. Craddock, John H. Hayes, Carl R. Holladay, Preaching Through the Christian Year, page 504:
unpossessing en · VERB
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of unpossess