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deˈvesture rare.
[a. OF. des-, devesture, -eure (14th c. in Godef.):—Rom. type *desvestitūra, f. desvestire: see devest and -ure; cf. divesture.]
The action of devesting: putting off (as clothes); dispossession (of property).
1648W. Mountague Devout Ess. i. xiv. §3 (R.) The very disadvantage we have..in the devesture of self-respects. 1798Colebrooke tr. Digest Hindu Law (1801) III. 52 Devesture of property happens three ways; by degradation, by abdication or renunciation, and by natural death. |