Definition of unpossessed in English:
unpossessed
adjective ʌnpəˈzɛstˌənpəˈzɛst
1Not possessed or owned.
a skill unpossessed by outsiders
Example sentencesExamples
- From the dominant, normative, which is to say male perspective, virginity stands for the promise of permanent possession of the unpossessed.
- After all, Antiope and Eleuthera are lovers, virginal of men, ‘unpossessed by man.’
- The one poem of Leila's that the novel gives an account of concerns the death of Henry's father and it is a poem which is unable to define his subjectivity in terms other than ‘a house strangely unpossessed’ 202.
- I was perusing the latest issue of one of those male magazines, you know the type - glossy, cover shots of half naked nubile females and banner headlines screaming guarantees of hitherto unpossessed sexual prowess and financial muscle.
- By the time Pema writes this book, she tells us she manages to stay stable or ‘unpossessed ‘with the help of ‘medicines, ‘but she does not specify what these are.’
- 1.1unpossessed of Not having (an ability, quality, or characteristic)
the money men are unpossessed of the social graces
Definition of unpossessed in US English:
unpossessed
adjectiveˌənpəˈzɛstˌənpəˈzest
1Not owned.
Example sentencesExamples
- I was perusing the latest issue of one of those male magazines, you know the type - glossy, cover shots of half naked nubile females and banner headlines screaming guarantees of hitherto unpossessed sexual prowess and financial muscle.
- By the time Pema writes this book, she tells us she manages to stay stable or ‘unpossessed ‘with the help of ‘medicines, ‘but she does not specify what these are.’
- The one poem of Leila's that the novel gives an account of concerns the death of Henry's father and it is a poem which is unable to define his subjectivity in terms other than ‘a house strangely unpossessed’ 202.
- After all, Antiope and Eleuthera are lovers, virginal of men, ‘unpossessed by man.’
- From the dominant, normative, which is to say male perspective, virginity stands for the promise of permanent possession of the unpossessed.
- 1.1unpossessed ofpredicative Not having (an ability, quality, or characteristic)
the money men are unpossessed of the social graces