The phrase "was possessed of" refers to someone who had something or was endowed with a particular quality or attribute. Antonyms for this phrase could be "was devoid of," "was lacking in," "was bereft of," or "was without." These antonyms imply that the person in question did not have the quality or attribute in question. For example, if someone was possessed of great wisdom, the antonyms suggest that they were not wise or lacked wisdom. Similarly, if someone was possessed of great wealth, the antonyms suggest that they were poor or had little money. Overall, these antonyms provide a contrasting view of the original phrase and highlight the absence of the quality or attribute in question.

What are the antonyms for Was possessed of?

• v.

  • own
  • abandon
  ,
  • deny
  ,
  • disavow
  ,
  • dispossess
  ,
  • forsake
  ,
  • give up
  ,
  • lack
  ,
  • let go
  ,
  • lose
  ,
  • need
  ,
  • not have
  ,
  • reject
  ,
  • release
  ,
  • sell
  ,
  • surrender
  ,
  • want
  ,
  • yield
  .

Famous quotes with Was possessed of

• Conquest brings no lasting happiness unless the person conquered was possessed of free will. Only then can there be doubt and anxiety and those continual victories over habit and boredom which produce the keenest pleasures of all. The comely inmates of the harem are rarely loved, for they are prisoners. Inversely, the far too accessible ladies of present-day seaside resorts almost never inspire love, because they are emancipated. Where is love's victory when there is neither veil, modesty, nor self-respect to check its progress? Excessive freedom raises up the transparent walls of an invisible seraglio to surround these easily acquired ladies. Romantic love requires women, not that they should be inaccessible, but that their lives should be lived within the rather narrow limits of religion and convention. These conditions, admirably observed in the Middle-Ages, produced the courtly love of that time. The honoured mistress of the chateau remained within its walls while the knight set out for the Crusades and thought about his lady. In those days a man scarcely ever tried to arouse love in the object of his passion. He resigned himself to loving in silence, or at least without hope. Such frustrated passions are considered by some to be naive and unreal, but to certain sensitive souls this kind of remote admiration is extremely pleasurable, because, being quite subjective, it is better protected against deception and disillusion.

  André Maurois

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