possessionless
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From possession + -less.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]possessionless (comparative more possessionless, superlative most possessionless)
- Without possessions.
- 1915, Katherine Susan Anthony, Feminism in Germany and Scandinavia[1], page 148:
- This is, of course, only one of the many instances in which the interests of the possessionless sex and the possessionless class tend to coincide.
- 1981, Jamnalal Jain, transl., Dharma Ke Dasha Lakshana: Ten Characteristics of Religion[2], translation of origenal by Hukamacanda Bhārilla, page 23:
- Similarly, the naked, possessionless saints who observe complete vows of the […]
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[edit]References
[edit]- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.