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 Meanings and Examples of DIVEST
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divest
 v.  free of; rid; remove all of one's clothing
Classic Sentence:
1  But the guest declined the proffered heel-tickling, and, on his hostess taking her departure, hastened to divest himself of his clothing, both upper and under, and to hand the garments to Fetinia.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
2  "Those are my orders, and they must be obeyed," said the footman, confronting Chichikov with none of that politeness with which, on former occasions, he had hastened to divest our hero of his wrappings.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER X
3  Miss Abbot turned to divest a stout leg of the necessary ligature.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these heavenly qualities.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
5  A half-civilised ferocity lurked yet in the depressed brows and eyes full of black fire, but it was subdued; and his manner was even dignified: quite divested of roughness, though stern for grace.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
6  Finally, the Mohican himself reappeared, divested of all his attire, except his girdle and leggings, and with one-half of his fine features hid under a cloud of threatening black.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
7  Even that night as he stumbled homewards along Jones's Road he had felt that some power was divesting him of that sudden-woven anger as easily as a fruit is divested of its soft ripe peel.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
8  Here Mr. Wopsle was divesting himself of his Danish garments, and here there was just room for us to look at him over one another's shoulders, by keeping the packing-case door, or lid, wide open.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXI
Example Sentence:
1  Most secretive of men, let him at last divest himself of secrets, both his and ours.
2  The disgraced official was divested of all authority.
3  She divested herself of her coat and sat down.
4  The police divested the pretended officer of his stolen uniform.
5  The cities of San Francisco and Seattle have pulled their money out of fossil fuel companies, taking a climate divestment campaign from college campuses to local government.