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noun

Domination n.

The act of dominating; exercise of power in ruling; dominion; supremacy; authority; often, arbitrary or insolent sway. "In such a people, the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom."

A ruling party; a party in power. (R.)

pl. A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy; a meaning given by the schoolmen. "Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Domination" Quotes from Famous Books

... prove fatal, for the same reason that animal organisms of a low, cold-blooded, grade are hard to kill,—they must be cut up in fragments before their death becomes complete; superstitions and beliefs that have no element of intelligent reason, and are perpetuated by social influence, authority, and domination over the young become a blind force that resists all influence ...

— Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 - Volume 1, Number 8 • Various

... place in a Society that was probably more completely masculine in domination than any in the world (with the possible exception of that of the Turk), Lady Durwent was only dimly aware that her daughter was developing a personality which presented a much greater problem than that ...

— The Parts Men Play • Arthur Beverley Baxter

... an aristocracy essentially proud? If it were not proud it would lack confidence. The Prussian aristocracy is, therefore, haughty; it desires domination by force and its desire to rule, to dominate more and more, is the essence of its existence. It rules by war; it wishes war; it must have war at the proper time. Its leaders have the good judgment to choose the right moment. This love of war is in the very fiber, the very ...

— Battle Studies • Colonel Charles-Jean-Jacques-Joseph Ardant du Picq

... hand, what need is there to justify a fact under whose domination all societies exist? Are there not in every country, as we have demonstrated, a vast number of men who live as honestly as possible, without being either celibates ...

— Analytical Studies • Honore de Balzac

... allowable for him, a private citizen, to summon the people to an assembly, than for them to convene the senate. They might try, whenever they pleased, how much more determined a sense of wrong will be found to be in vindicating one's own liberty, than ambition in (vindicating) usurped domination. That they proposed the question concerning the Sabine war, as if the Roman people had any more important war on hand, than that against those who, having been elected for the purpose of framing laws, had left no law ...

— The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 • Titus Livius

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