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.”
Praetorian (adj) (noun) pri-taw-ree-un of or relating to a praetor (a magistrate in the Roman republic). a soldier of the Praetorian Guard (Roman imperial army) First recorded in 1375–1425; late…
