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Ousting   /ˈaʊstɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Oust  v. t.  (past & past part. ousted; pres. part. ousting)  
1.
To take away; to remove. "Multiplication of actions upon the case were rare, formerly, and thereby wager of law ousted."
2.
To eject; to expel; to turn out. "From mine own earldom foully ousted me."


noun
ousting  n.  The act of ejecting someone or forcing them out; ouster.
Synonyms: ouster.





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"Ousting" Quotes from Famous Books



... to the inheritance of the departed Hendrik Brant. That wealth we might, it is true, obtain by artifice or by arms; but how much better that it should come into the family in a regular fashion, thereby ousting the claim of the Crown. Things in this country are disturbed at present, but they will not always be disturbed, for in the end somebody must give way and order will prevail. Then questions might be asked, for persons in possession of ...
— Lysbeth - A Tale Of The Dutch • H. Rider Haggard
... Thankful's story, she and Miss Howes had immediately gone upstairs after leaving the living-room. Daniels could have spoken with them again that evening. But when Captain Obed remembered this it was too late. Thankful had asked Mr. Daniels to take her case, provided the attempt at ousting her from her property ever reached legal proceedings. And Emily Howes left East Wellmouth two ...
— Thankful's Inheritance • Joseph C. Lincoln
... his strength and courage: he chose it for his home, and defended it against all comers. He was now old and feeble, but his reputation as a leading politician, and his influence at the court of King Kapchack, were too great for any to think of ousting ...
— Wood Magic - A Fable • Richard Jefferies
... friends, but could be really so only by, for the time, seeming not to be so. At points we failed in tact. We too little recognized distinctions among classes of Filipinos, tending to treat all alike as savages. When our thought ceased to be that of ousting Spain, and attacked the more serious question what to do next, our manner toward the Filipinos abruptly changed. Our purposes were left unnecessarily equivocal. Our troops viewed the Filipinos with ill-concealed contempt. "Filipinos" and "niggers" ...
— History of the United States, Volume 5 • E. Benjamin Andrews
... should keep Piedmont and find no barrier opposed to her in Holland,[743] he felt so convinced of Napoleon's refusal and of Prussia's good faith that he prepared to satisfy her demand for a British subsidy. Prussian troops were marching into Hanover, as if with the aim of ousting the French and restoring the authority of George III; and Hardenberg assured Harrowby in their first interview, on 16th November, that that force would protect the flank of the Anglo-Russian expedition then about ...
— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose


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