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 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
It was a small bit of pork suspended from the kettle-hanger by a string passed through a large door-key, in a way known to primitive housekeepers unpossessed of jacks.
From Silas Marner by George Eliot
This natural unpremeditated effect of policy on the unpossessed passions of mankind appears on other occasions.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
They are formed to plod meritoriously on the lower levels of thought, unpossessed of the pinions necessary to reach the heights.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
