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noun

Dominion n.

Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling; independent right of possession, use, and control; sovereignty; supremacy. "I praised and honored him that liveth forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion." "To choose between dominion or slavery."

Superior prominence; predominance; ascendency. "Objects placed foremost ought... have dominion over things confused and transient."

That which is governed; territory over which authority is exercised; the tract, district, or county, considered as subject; as, the dominions of a king. Also used figuratively; as, the dominion of the passions.

pl. A supposed high order of angels; dominations. See Domination, 3. "By him were all things created... whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers."

Synonyms: Sovereignty; control; rule; authority; jurisdiction; government; territory; district; region.

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— Dynevor Terrace (Vol. II) • Charlotte M. Yonge

... Mudjekeewis!" With a shout exclaimed the people, "Honor be to Mudjekeewis! Henceforth he shall be the West-Wind, And hereafter and forever Shall he hold supreme dominion Over all the winds of heaven. Call him no more Mudjekeewis, Call ...

— The Song Of Hiawatha • Henry W. Longfellow

... to which we will now turn, was in a different situation at the outbreak of the war from that of the German colonies of the east and west. Over the frontier was a self-governing dominion, the Union of South Africa, with an independent parliament made up of a strange mixture of different parties. The irreconcilables in the Dutch population who had dreamed of a greater Afrikander Republic, would they not take this opportunity to side with ...

— The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various

... see that thou art indeed true-hearted; that thou dost not give us life by parings and subterfuges, but abundantly; that thou dost not make men in order to assert thy dominion over them, but that they may partake of thy life. O God, have pity when I cannot understand, and teach me as thou wouldst the little one whom, if thou wert an earthly father amongst us as thy son was an earthly son, ...

— What's Mine's Mine • George MacDonald

... syllogism. Man has at last comprehended that he is man; he has given up analyzing his God and searching into the imperceptible, into what he has not seen; he has given up framing laws for the phantasms of his brain; he comprehends that his heritage is the vast world, dominion over which is within his reach; weary of his useless and presumptuous toil, he lowers his head and examines what surrounds him. See how poets are now springing up among us! The Muses of Nature are gradually opening up their treasures to us and begin to smile ...

— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal

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