possessionlessness

English

Etymology

possessionless +‎ -ness

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /pəˈzɛʃn̩.ləs.nəs/

Noun

possessionlessness (uncountable)

The state or condition of having no possessions.
- 1992, Francesca Polletta, "Politicizing Childhood: The 1980 Zurich Burns Movement," Social Text, no. 33, p. 95:
  Their rebellion . . . translated their dispossession into the free possessionlessness of childhood.
- 1996, Gordon Leff, "Review of Olivi's Peaceable Kingdom. A Reading of the Apocalypse Commentary by David Burr," The English Historical Review, vol. 111, no. 442, p. 682:
  Olivi in his commentary on the Apocalypse sanctified Francisan poverty, in the extreme form of absolute penury as well as possessionlessness attributed by the Franciscan Spirituals to St. Francis.
- 1996, Mavis Fenn, "Two Notions of Poverty in the Pāli Canon," Journal of Buddhist Ethics, vol. 3, p. 113:
  More appropriate here is a definition of poverty as "possessionlessness," an understanding conveyed by the Pāli term akiñcana ("without anything," "lacking possessions").

Related terms

possessionless

References

Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.

单词	possessionlessness
释义	possessionlessness English Etymology possessionless +‎ -ness Pronunciation (UK) IPA^(key): /pəˈzɛʃn̩.ləs.nəs/ Noun possessionlessness (uncountable) The state or condition of having no possessions. 1992, Francesca Polletta, "Politicizing Childhood: The 1980 Zurich Burns Movement," Social Text, no. 33, p. 95: Their rebellion . . . translated their dispossession into the free possessionlessness of childhood. 1996, Gordon Leff, "Review of Olivi's Peaceable Kingdom. A Reading of the Apocalypse Commentary by David Burr," The English Historical Review, vol. 111, no. 442, p. 682: Olivi in his commentary on the Apocalypse sanctified Francisan poverty, in the extreme form of absolute penury as well as possessionlessness attributed by the Franciscan Spirituals to St. Francis. 1996, Mavis Fenn, "Two Notions of Poverty in the Pāli Canon," Journal of Buddhist Ethics, vol. 3, p. 113: More appropriate here is a definition of poverty as "possessionlessness," an understanding conveyed by the Pāli term akiñcana ("without anything," "lacking possessions"). Related terms possessionless References Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
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