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ownsome

Adjective CEFR B1

Definitions

Marked by possession, ownership, or belonging; proper.

Examples

“Ranging somebody else's ownsome ground, Lacking somebody else's thrill, Haunting somebody else's too profound, Just a-ghosting for somebody else!”
“I was doin' what I had to do to save⟳ my cares, those that still breathed, and if this cost⟳ me my ownsome life, well, that was the price that I had to pay⟳.”
“This mother-diction engenders the mother-language as such (and therefore the ownsome wyrd of a manhood) in that it firmly hands over the speaking of that language unto its wyrdly biding as a say⟳ of en-owning.”
“The second joy that Mary had, It was the joy of two, To see⟳ her ownsome Jesus To make⟳ the lame to go.”

CEFR level

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