owndom
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
owndom (plural owndoms)
- Property.
- 1876, The Musical World:
- The past is our own, the present is the owndom of the future.
- 1895, Stephen Pearl Andrews, The science of society:
- Hence we maintain that man cannot be a man without property. He cannot be his own without an outward owndom.
- 1980, John Morris Dorsey, University professor John M. Dorsey:
- There must be a tormenting feeling of self-insufficiency in me until I can realize that my self-possession subsumes my all. I must endure my goading ambition until I can acknowledge ownership of all of my owndom.
- 1876, The Musical World:
- Personal belongings; possessions.
- A characteristic; quality; attribute; trait.
- Ownership; possession.
- 1894, Sturla Þórðarson, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Sir George Webbe Dasent, Icelandic sagas and other historical documents relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen on the British Isles:
- The king answers, and began first to say how Harold fair-hair had owned all the allodial land the Orkneys, "but the earls have held it since in fief, but never as their owndom […] "
- 1894, Sturla Þórðarson, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Sir George Webbe Dasent, Icelandic sagas and other historical documents relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen on the British Isles:
- Control of oneself; self-mastery.
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