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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf. F.

dépossession

The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed.

Bp. Hall.

(Law)

The putting out of possession, wrongfully or otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no matter in what title; – called also

ouster

Noun.

The act of putting out of possession.

dispossession ‎(plural dispossessions)

The act of dispossessing someone of something.
The casting out of an evil spirit that has possessed someone; exorcism.
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 462:
  There had been a series of such dispossessions since the beginning of Elizabeth's reign involving many clergy, particularly those of vehement Protestant sympathies.