Owndom vs Oversit - What's the difference?
owndom | oversit |
Property.
*1980 , John Morris Dorsey, University professor John M. Dorsey :
*1895 , Stephen Pearl Andrews, The science of society :
*1876 , The Musical World:
Personal belongings; possessions.
A characteristic; quality; attribute; trait.
Ownership; possession.
*1894 , Sturla Þórðarson, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Sir George Webbe Dasent, Icelandic sagas and other historical documents relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen on the British Isles :
Control of one's self; self-mastery.
to preside over, govern, rule; to control
to conquer, gain control or owndom of
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to grasp, comprehend; to understand
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(archaic) to neglect, omit; to desist, refrain from, forbear
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(archaic) to overstay, outstay, overlinger
(slang) to be misunderstood; to misread, misunderstand
As nouns the difference between owndom and oversit
is that owndom is property while oversit is governance, authority, possession, control.As a verb oversit is
to preside over, govern, rule; to control.owndom
English
Noun
(en noun)- There must be a tormenting feeling of self-insufficiency in me until I can realize that my self-possession subsumes my all. I must endure my goading ambition until I can acknowledge ownership of all of my owndom .
- Hence we maintain that man cannot be a man without property. He cannot be his own without an outward owndom .
- The past is our own, the present is the owndom of the future.
- The king answers, and began first to say how Harold fair-hair had owned all the allodial land the Orkneys, "but the earls have held it since in fief, but never as their owndom [...]"