Sequestration Synonyms and Antonyms

sēkwĭ-strāshən, sĕkwĭ-
The act or process of isolating
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. segregation
  2. insulation
  3. isolation
  4. separation
Antonyms:
  1. integration
The act of secluding or the state of being secluded
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. reclusion
  2. retirement
  3. seclusion
Seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. requisition

Words Related to Sequestration

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Sequestration Sentence Examples

  • This right was enforceable by sequestration and sale.

  • He acted as representative of his exiled king in the negotiations with the Prussian government concerning his private property and opposed the sequestration, thus for the first time being placed in a position of hostility to Bismarck.

  • The sequestration of the monastic estates, which in 1864 covered nearly one-third of Rumania, was due to flagrant abuses.

  • She was dissuaded from this extreme course, but Grindal's sequestration was continued in spite of a petition from Convocation in 1581 for his reinstatement.

  • He had suffered twice from the chicanery of Edward's lawyers; in 1284 when a dispute between himself and the royal favourite, John Giffard, was decided in the latter's favour; and again in 1292 when he was punished with temporary imprisonment and sequestration for a technical, and apparently unwitting, contempt of the king's court.

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