have dispossessed

• present perfect

  present perfect

  Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.

  of dispossess.
  dispossess

  verb (used with object)

  to put (a person) out of possession, especially of real property; oust.

Example Sentences

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have dispossessed

When in danger of losing her sovereignty by the operation of the Salic Law, she has an offer of marriage from Prince Berthold, who could have dispossessed her.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe

Here I am placed by heaven, here I am prince, Though you have dispossessed me of my Milan.

From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by John Dryden

I would have preferred to have dispossessed some fighting abbot.

From The Abbatial Crosier or Bonaik and Septimine. A Tale of a Medieval Abbess by Eugène Sue

While man went forth to hunt, or to battle with the foe who would have dispossessed us of all, we laboured on the land.

From Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner

You have dispossessed the family, whose property it is, of it, and you have caused great confusion and dismay over a whole county.

From Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest

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