"unpossess" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1995, Kuffel V. United States of America, page 90:",
          "text": "This is a farce. Since when did I receive the gun (which is possessing it) and then unpossess it, and, then possess it again (all from 1984 to 1985) .",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Proceedings: 19th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, page 203:",
          "text": "Users can select whether the Soul should continue to refer to the original Body (B_C on the host A) or it should unpossess the old Body and possess a one on the host B.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Kassandra Arevalo, Matthew Tovar, Jingtian Li, Creating Games with Unreal Engine, Substance Painter, & Maya, pages 12-156:",
          "text": "These two events are called when this player controller possesses and unpossesses a pawn.",
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        "To be without, or to resign, possession of."
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        "(transitive, rare) To be without, or to resign, possession of."
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          "ref": "1879, Sir Thomas Wyatt, The Poetical Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, page 176:",
          "text": "The hold that is given over I unpossess, so hangeth now in balance Of war my peace, reward of all my pain, At Mountzon thus I restless rest in Spain.",
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        {
          "ref": "1985, Alice Eileen Jurish, And what is Fate But Love?:",
          "text": "[…] but she also exits as a new person, for to be free, she had to unpossess herself of her \"possession,\" her passion.",
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        {
          "ref": "1987, Fiction - Volume 8, Issue 2, page 46:",
          "text": "She was posssessed, Nausicaa was, and no amount of reminding her of Odysseus's age and marital status could unpossess her .",
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        "To free from an obsession that has taken hold of (someone)"
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          "ref": "1995, Kuffel V. United States of America, page 90:",
          "text": "This is a farce. Since when did I receive the gun (which is possessing it) and then unpossess it, and, then possess it again (all from 1984 to 1985) .",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Proceedings: 19th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, page 203:",
          "text": "Users can select whether the Soul should continue to refer to the original Body (B_C on the host A) or it should unpossess the old Body and possess a one on the host B.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Kassandra Arevalo, Matthew Tovar, Jingtian Li, Creating Games with Unreal Engine, Substance Painter, & Maya, pages 12-156:",
          "text": "These two events are called when this player controller possesses and unpossesses a pawn.",
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        }
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          "text": "The hold that is given over I unpossess, so hangeth now in balance Of war my peace, reward of all my pain, At Mountzon thus I restless rest in Spain.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985, Alice Eileen Jurish, And what is Fate But Love?:",
          "text": "[…] but she also exits as a new person, for to be free, she had to unpossess herself of her \"possession,\" her passion.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, Fiction - Volume 8, Issue 2, page 46:",
          "text": "She was posssessed, Nausicaa was, and no amount of reminding her of Odysseus's age and marital status could unpossess her .",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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