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单词 unpossessed
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unpossessed

/ʌnpəˈzɛst /
adjective
1Not possessed or owned: a skill unpossessed by outsiders...
  • From the dominant, normative, which is to say male perspective, virginity stands for the promise of permanent possession of the unpossessed.
  • I was perusing the latest issue of one of those male magazines, you know the type - glossy, cover shots of half naked nubile females and banner headlines screaming guarantees of hitherto unpossessed sexual prowess and financial muscle.
  • The one poem of Leila's that the novel gives an account of concerns the death of Henry's father and it is a poem which is unable to define his subjectivity in terms other than ‘a house strangely unpossessed’ 202.
1.1 (unpossessed of) Not having (an ability, quality, or characteristic): the money men are unpossessed of the social graces
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