Definition of "dispossessed" []

• Deprived of possession. (adjective)
• Spiritually impoverished or alienated. (adjective)

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• "If you were poor, whether at home or in some Third World country, you were one of the 'dispossessed'-even if you had never possessed anything to dispossess you of."
• "Well the tent cities of the dispossessed are a fine approximation and are likely larger than the 'villes of the' 30's, as there are more of us."
• "Of the 1079 households identified as dispossessed and affected by group areas legislation in the Knysna claim, 822 were classified coloured and 257 classified African."