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Noun: dispossession  `dis-pu'ze-shun
  1. The expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law
    - eviction, legal ouster
     
  2. Freeing from evil spirits
    - exorcism

Derived forms: dispossessions

See also: dispossess

Type of: due process, due process of law, supernaturalism

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