owndom
nounUK /ˈəʊn.dəm/ · US /ˈoʊn.dəm/
Etymology From own + -dom, a calque of German Eigentum (“property”), from eigen (“own”) + -tum (“-dom”). Compare Saterland Frisian Oaindum (“property, possession”), Dutch eigendom, West Frisian eigendom.
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Uncommon Property.
- The past is our own, the present is the owndom of the future.1876, The Musical World:
- Hence we maintain that man cannot be a man without property. He cannot be his own without an outward owndom.1895, Stephen Pearl Andrews, The science of society:
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- 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.1980, John Morris Dorsey, University professor John M. Dorsey:
2
Uncommon Personal belongings; possessions.
3
Uncommon A characteristic; quality; attribute; trait.
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Uncommon 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as their owndom[…]"1894, Sturla Þórðarson, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Sir George Webbe Dasent, Icelandic sagas and other historical documents relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen on the British Isles:
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Uncommon Control of oneself; self-mastery.