Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of unpossess
adjectiveunpossessing (not comparable)
- not comparableLacking possessions; poor.
Yahweh is not an unconcerned transcendent Deity but the caretaker of the dispossessed and the unpossessing.
1993, Fred B. Craddock, John H. Hayes, Carl R. Holladay, Preaching Through the Christian Year, page 5041 more example
Thou unpossessing bastard! Dost thou think / If I would stand against thee, would the reposal / Of any trust, virtue, or worth in thee / Make thy words faithed? No.
c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]
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