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Owndom

//ˈoʊn.dəm// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Property. countable, uncommon, uncountable

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

  2. 2
    Personal belongings; possessions. countable, uncommon, uncountable
  3. 3
    A characteristic; quality; attribute; trait. countable, uncommon, uncountable
  4. 4
    Ownership; possession. countable, uncommon, uncountable

    "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. 5
    Control of oneself; self-mastery. countable, uncommon, uncountable

Etymology

From own + -dom, a calque of German Eigentum (“property”), from eigen (“own”) + -tum (“-dom”). Compare Saterland Frisian Oaindum (“property, possession”), Dutch eigendom, West Frisian eigendom.

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