Owndom
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /ˈəʊndəm/
- US IPA: /ˈoʊndəm/
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)- 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.
- Personal belongings; possessions.
- A characteristic; quality; attribute; trait.
- 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- 1894, Sturla Þórðarson, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Sir George Webbe Dasent, Icelandic sagas and other historical documents relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen on the British Isles:The king answers, and began first to say how Harold fair-hair had owned all the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 ..."
- Control of one's self; self-mastery.