disseisin noun. [dɪs'si:zɪn] Also disseizin. LME.
[Anglo-Norman disseisine, Old French dessaisine, formed as DIS- 2, SEISIN.]
1. Law (now Hist.). The act or fact of disseising; privation of seisin; esp. the wrongful appropriation of the lands or (formerly) the goods of another. LME.
novel disseisin, new disseisin, fresh disseisin disseisin of recent date.

2. gen. Dispossession. arch. L16.
■ M. Beerbohm Why should the disseizin of his soul have seemed shameful to him?..He was in love.

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