Bounds vs Dominion - What's the difference?
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Power or the use of power; sovereignty over something; stewardship, supremacy.
* Bible, Daniel iv. 34
* Jowett
predominance; ascendancy
* Dryden
(sometimes, figurative) A kingdom, nation, or other sphere of influence; governed territory.
(historical) One of the colonies of the British Empire given self-government through the Statute of Westminster, such as Canada or Newfoundland.
(Biblical tradition) An order of angel in Christian angelology, ranked above angels and below thrones.
* Bible, Colossians 1:16
Bounds is a related term of dominion.
As a noun bounds
is .As a verb bounds
is (bound).As a proper noun dominion is
any of the self-governing nations of the british commonwealth.bounds
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Noun
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Verb
(head)dominion
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Noun
(en noun)- I praised and honoured him that liveth forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion.
- To choose between dominion or slavery.
- Objects placed foremost ought have dominion over things confused and transient.
- the dominions of a king
- the dominion of the passions
- By him were all things created whether they be thrones, or dominions , or principalities, or powers.