Noun: owndom
| Singular | owndom |
| Plural | owndoms |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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:]
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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as their owndom[…]" [1894, Sturla Þórðarson, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Sir George Webbe Dasent, Icelandic sagas and other historical documents relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen on the British Isles:]
Nouns inflected like owndom
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: German Nouns '
Eigentum', Dutch Nouns '
eigendom'.