Example Sentences

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He wants to change art into a system of total environments, which can be enjoyed but never possessed�as a sunset is unpossessed.

From Time Magazine Archive

I am not unschooled in the arts of gallantry, but my lessons were administered through observation rather than practice; and I found myself unpossessed of even the slightest article of sense.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

“I heard there by chance, yesterday morning,” said Wemmick, “that a certain person not altogether of uncolonial pursuits, and not unpossessed of portable property,—I don’t know who it may really be,—we won’t name this person—”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

Adj. exempt from, devoid of, without, unpossessed of†, unblest with†; immune from. not having &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

Pleasures there are how close to Pain And better unpossessed!

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert