nonpossession

noun

Definition of nonpossessionnext
as in relinquishment

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  1. relinquishment
  2. surrendering
  3. dispossession
Noun
  • In North Carolina, a 2024 study examining state enforcement laws found that despite 93% of cases meeting the conditions for gun relinquishment, the policy was enforced in only 37% of cases.
    — Sativa Banks, The Conversation, 4 June 2026
  • Benjamin qualified for the national bee by winning the San Diego County Scripps Regional Spelling Bee in March, correctly spelling kenosis, the relinquishment of divine attributes by Jesus Christ in becoming human, in the 23rd round.
    — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2026
Definition of relinquishment
Noun
  • He was eventually talked into surrendering.
    — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 19 May 2026
  • Anderson has spent her career making albums, visual art, and films that deal with the surrendering of humanity to technology, loss, and even Amelia Earhart.
    — David Harris, SPIN, 11 May 2026
Definition of surrendering
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  • Frequently working with his partner Angela Ricci Lucchi, who died in 2018, Gianikian produced experimental films that considered forms of dispossession and the lingering pain that often accompanies it.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 6 July 2026
  • This definition of Black maternal dispossession simply aims to examine the many ways that Black motherhood is obscured and rendered an archival impossibility for research in my attempt to define it.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 June 2026
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“Nonpossession.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonpossession. Accessed 11 Jul. 2026.

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