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Meaning of owndom | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/ˈəʊn.dəm/

Definitions

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

Examples

“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[…]"”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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