The process or act of depriving of common rights; the removal of shared land or resources from communal use.
From discommon + -ing (gerund form). This noun describes the historical process, most notably in England, of converting communal lands to private ownership.
The English enclosure movement involved massive 'discommoning'—turning shared village lands into private property owned by aristocrats. It's one of history's biggest economic power grabs, captured in a single word that historians use constantly.
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