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Meaning of possessorship | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1
pəˈzɛsəɹˌʃɪp

Definitions

The state of possessing something, possession.

uncountable

Examples

“He experiences the overwhelming joy of possessorship, for she is his.”
“As Christ manifested to the world the love of the Father, so are we to manifest the love of Christ--a manifestation, however, which is only possible because of our possessorship of a common life.”
“It was unconsciously, insidiously, that her ten years of happiness with Westall had developed another conception of the tie; a reversion, rather, to the old instinct of passionate dependency and possessorship that now made her blood revolt at the mere hint of change.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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