owndom

plural owndoms

1. countableuncommonuncountableProperty.

   The past is our own, the present is the owndom of the future.

   1876, The Musical World

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   Hence we maintain that man cannot be a man without property. He cannot be his own without an outward owndom.

   1895, Stephen Pearl Andrews, The science of society

   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.

   1980, John Morris Dorsey, University professor John M. Dorsey

   Synonyms: belongings, aught, belongings, possession, property, propriety

2. countableuncommonuncountablePersonal belongings; possessions.
3. countableuncommonuncountableA characteristic; quality; attribute; trait.

   Synonyms: race, attribute, characteristic, designation, vein, distinctiveness, feature, hallmark

4. countableuncommonuncountableOwnership; possession.

   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[…]"

   1894, Sturla Þórðarson, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Sir George Webbe Dasent, Icelandic sagas and other historical documents relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen on the British Isles

   Synonyms: proprietorship, ownership, possession, proprietorship, propriety

5. countableuncommonuncountableControl of oneself; self-mastery.