possessed
adjective
spurred or moved by a strong feeling, madness, or a supernatural power (often followed by by, of, orwith ).
unpossessed
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a word derived from
possessed.
Example Sentences
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“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
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
While Mrs. Barbauld was tarrying at Geneva, her brother addressed a letter in verse to her: Yet one dear wish still struggles in my breast, And paints one darling object unpossessed.
From The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger
Thus to both the labor theorist and the practical pioneer, the existence of what seemed inexhaustible cheap land and unpossessed resources was the condition of democracy.
From The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner
Pleasures there are how close to Pain And better unpossessed!
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
