Sentence example with the word 'dispossessed'

dispossessed

Definition adj. physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security

Last update: July 1, 2015


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But the tendency to ascribe the disasters of northern Israel to the priesthood (see esp. Hosea) takes another form when an inserted prophecy revokes the privileges of the ancient and honourable family, foretells its overthrow, and announces the rise of a new faithful and everlasting priesthood, at whose hands the dispossessed survivors, reduced to poverty, would beg some priestly office to secure a livelihood (i Sam.   [Please select]

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Forget: a dispossessed.   [Please select]

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Over his aching and dispossessed heart he steeled himself in an impartial scrutiny.   [Please select]

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The Spaniards, desiring no neighbours in that hemisphere, dispossessed these settlers.   [Please select]

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He kept seeing her as she had lain there sobbing, so fragile and dispossessed and broken.   [Please select]

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Whether through cowardice or silly indulgence, the dispossessed insect lets the other have its way.   [Please select]

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The dispossessed owners hung about, and raided the goods of the settlers whenever opportunity offered.   [Please select]

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