• Owndom

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /ˈəʊndÉ™m/
    • US IPA: /ˈoÊŠndÉ™m/

    Origin

    From own + -dom, a loan-translation of German Eigentum ("property"), from eigen ("own") + -tum ("-dom"). More at own, -dom.

    Full definition of owndom

    Noun

    owndom

    (plural owndoms)
    1. Property.
      • 1980, John Morris Dorsey, University professor John M. Dorsey: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.
      • 1895, Stephen Pearl Andrews, The science of society:Hence we maintain that man cannot be a man without property. He cannot be his own without an outward owndom.
      • 1876, The Musical World:The past is our own, the present is the owndom of the future.
    2. Personal belongings; possessions.
    3. A characteristic; quality; attribute; trait.
    4. Ownership; possession.
      • 1894, Sturla Þórðarson, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Sir George Webbe Dasent, Icelandic sagas and other historical documents relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen on the British Isles:The king answers, and began first to say how Harold fair-hair had owned all the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 one's self; self-mastery.
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