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disseizins

disseizins is the plural of disseizin.

Meaning of disseizin

Noun

disseizin (countable and uncountable, plural disseizins)

  1. The act of disseizing; an act of unlawful dispossessing, especially of someone's lands.
    • Disseizin of things corporeal , as of houses , lands , & c . , must be by entry and actual dispossession of the freehold1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC
  2. (figuratively) Dispossession.
    • Why should the disseizin of his soul have seemed shameful to him?1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson

Questions about disseizins

What is disseizins the plural of?
Disseizins is the plural of disseizin.

Words near disseizins in the dictionary

  1. disseizee
  2. disseizees
  3. disseizes
  4. disseizin
  5. disseizing
  6. disseizins
  7. disseizor
  8. disseizoress
  9. disseizoresses
  10. disseizors
  11. disseizure

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