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Keeping vs Dominion - What's the difference?

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Keeping is a related term of dominion.


As a noun keeping

is conformity or harmony.

As a verb keeping

is .

As a proper noun dominion is

any of the self-governing nations of the british commonwealth.

keeping

English

Noun

  • conformity or harmony.
    • The songs are new but in keeping with tradition.
    The foreground of this painting is not in keeping .
  • charge or care.
  • * South
    • His happiness is in his own keeping .
  • Maintenance; support; provision; feed.
    • The cattle have good keeping .
  • * Milton
    • the work of many hands, which earns my keeping

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * in keeping with

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    dominion

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Power or the use of power; sovereignty over something; stewardship, supremacy.
  • * Bible, Daniel iv. 34
    • I praised and honoured him that liveth forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion.
  • * Jowett
    • To choose between dominion or slavery.
  • predominance; ascendancy
  • * Dryden
    • Objects placed foremost ought have dominion over things confused and transient.
  • (sometimes, figurative) A kingdom, nation, or other sphere of influence; governed territory.
    • the dominions of a king
    the dominion of the passions
  • (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
    • By him were all things created whether they be thrones, or dominions , or principalities, or powers.

    Related terms

    * dominate * domination * dominator * domineering * domino

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