Owndom

/ˈəʊn.dəm/ · noun

Meaning

Property..

Definitions by Sense

1. Property.
2. Personal belongings; possessions.
3. A characteristic; quality; attribute; trait.
4. Ownership; possession.
5. Control of oneself; self-mastery.

Example Sentences

The past is our own, the present is the owndom of the future.

Hence we maintain that man cannot be a man without property. He cannot be his own without an outward owndom.

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.

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[…]"

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