Definitions
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- noun uncountable Lack of
possession ; not possessing something. - noun countable That which is not a
possession ; something notowned .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The continued insistence that women like Ewing should reexamine their feelings of "possessiveness," rather than question the sexual-revolutionary principle of nonpossession, meant that the full depth of women's suffering remained nearly invisible, even to its witnesses.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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By ascribing to women a sexuality of promiscuous nonpossession, the outlaw-theorists of the Digger sexual revolution created a social environment that inhibited women's ability to articulate their own authentic needs and impulses.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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It is largely by the possession or nonpossession of real property that a man is considered rich or poor.
The Bontoc Igorot Albert Ernest Jenks 1911
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We must adhere to truth, nonviolence, nonstealing, nonpossession (minimalism) and celibacy, to the best of our competence and capability.
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