Divest (verb)
dai-vest
Deprive someone of (power, rights, or possessions)
Early 17th century alteration of devest, from Old French desvestir, from des- (expressing removal) + Latin vestire (from vestis ‘garment’).
Example sentences
“They say we don’t need radical feminism but men continue to divest women’s rights without it.”
Favonian (adj) fav-oh-nee-un Of or relating to the west wind./ Mild or favorable; propitious. 1650–60; Latin Favōniānus. See Favonius, -an. foehn (more…)
