Dominion vs Oversway - What's the difference?
dominion | oversway |
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
(obsolete) To hold sway over; to have power or dominion over, to rule, govern.
*1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 86-7:
*:the Presidents authoritie so overswayed the discretion of Master Scrivener, that our store, our time, our strength and labours were idely consumed to fulfill his phantasies.
To overrule.
To cause (someone, someone's thoughts or intentions etc.) to go in a particular direction; to influence.
To overpower, overwhelm.
As a proper noun dominion
is any of the self-governing nations of the british commonwealth.As a verb oversway is
(obsolete) to hold sway over; to have power or dominion over, to rule, govern.dominion
English
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.