owndom

UK /ˈəʊn.dəm/ US /ˈoʊn.dəm/
noun 5

Definitions

noun

1

Property.

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.

2

Personal belongings; possessions.

3

A characteristic; quality; attribute; trait.

4

Ownership; possession.

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[…]"

5

Control of oneself; self-mastery.

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