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Confiscation vs Dispossession - What's the difference?

confiscation | dispossession |

As nouns the difference between confiscation and dispossession

is that confiscation is the act or process of confiscating while dispossession is the act of dispossessing someone of something.

confiscation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or process of confiscating.

    • dispossession

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of dispossessing someone of something.
  • The casting out of an evil spirit that has possessed someone; exorcism.
  • *1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 462:
  • *:There had been a series of such dispossessions since the beginning of Elizabeth's reign involving many clergy, particularly those of vehement Protestant sympathies.