Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of withdrawing from an appointed use.
- noun Specifically The act of alienating church property from the purpose for which it was designed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of disappropriating.
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- noun The
act ofdisappropriating ; oftaking something away fromsomeone .
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Examples
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In making the anti-slavery arguments needed to impeach Hodgson, George furthers the interests of his family as participants in the sale of land, but it is precisely this move that will guarantee his family's disappropriation and potential enslavement at the moment of future colonization.
The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006
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I regard general disappropriation as impossible: attacked from that point, the problem of universal association seems to me insolvable.
What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government. 1890
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I regard general disappropriation as impossible: attacked from that point, the problem of universal association seems to me insolvable.
What is Property? 1837
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I concurred, but observed, that on a division of the House, the ayes for striking out the clause were twenty-seven, the noes twenty-six; whereon the Speaker gave his vote against striking out, which divides the House: the clause for the disappropriation remained of course.
The Anas 1818
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I concurred, but observed, that on a division of the House, the ayes for striking out the clause were twenty-seven, the noes twenty-six; whereon the Speaker gave his vote against striking out, which divides the House: the clause for the disappropriation remained of course.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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