dispossession

Etymology

dis- + possession

noun

1. The act of dispossessing someone of something.
2. The casting out of an evil spirit that has possessed someone; exorcism.
   There had been a series of such dispossessions since the beginning of Elizabeth's reign involving many clergy, particularly those of vehement Protestant sympathies. 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 462