Possess vs Possession - What's the difference?
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To have; to have ownership of.
* 1818 , (Mary Shelley), (Frankenstein) , Volume 3, Chapter 7:
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1 To take control of someone's body or mind, especially in a supernatural manner.
To vest ownership in (someone); to give someone power or knowledge; to acquaint; to inform.
* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,
* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Twelfth Night) , II, 3
Control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.
Something that is owned.
Ownership]]; [[take, taking, holding, keeping something as one's own.
A territory under the rule of another country.
The condition or affliction of being possessed by a demon or other supernatural entity.
* Shakespeare
(sports) Control of the ball; the opportunity to be on the offensive.
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(linguistics) A syntactic relationship between two nouns or nominals that may be used to indicate ownership.
As verbs the difference between possess and possession
is that possess is to have; to have ownership of while possession is to invest with property.As a noun possession is
control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.possess
English
Verb
(es)- [...], the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds, which hardly any later friend can obtain.
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- LEONATO. I cannot bid you bid my daughter live;
- That were impossible; but, I pray you both,
- Possess the people in Messina here
- How innocent she died;
- [Sir Toby Belch] Possess' us, '''possess' us ; tell us something of him.
Quotations
*Synonyms
* seise * (qualities or characteristics) inholdpossession
English
Noun
(wikipedia possession) (en noun)- The car quickly became his most prized possession .
- I would gladly give all of my worldly possessions just to be able to do that.
- The car is in my possession .
- I'm in possession of the car.
- Réunion is the largest of France's overseas possessions .
- Back then, people with psychiatric disorders were sometimes thought to be victims of demonic possession .
- How long hath this possession held the man?
- The scoreboard shows a little football symbol next to the name of the team that has possession .
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- Some languages distinguish between a construction like 'my car', which shows alienable possession''' — the car could become someone else's — and one like 'my foot', which has inalienable '''possession — my foot will always be mine.