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Possess vs Possessorship - What's the difference?

possess | possessorship |

As a verb possess

is to have; to have ownership of.

As a noun possessorship is

the state of possessing something, possession.

possess

English

Verb

(es)
  • To have; to have ownership of.
  • * 1818 , (Mary Shelley), (Frankenstein) , Volume 3, Chapter 7:
    • [...], the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds, which hardly any later friend can obtain.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.}}
  • 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) ,
    • 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;
  • * 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Twelfth Night) , II, 3
    • [Sir Toby Belch] Possess' us, '''possess' us ; tell us something of him.

    Quotations

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    Synonyms

    * seise * (qualities or characteristics) inhold

    possessorship

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state of possessing something, possession.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1846, author=Amanda Millie Douglas, title=A Little Girl of Long Ago, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He experiences the overwhelming joy of possessorship , for she is his. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1894, author=A. J. Gordon, title=The Ministry of the Spirit, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=As Christ manifested to the world the love of the Father, so are we to manifest the love of Christ--a manifestation, however, which is only possible because of our possessorship of a common life. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1910, author=Edith Wharton, title=The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 2 (of 10), chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=It was unconsciously, insidiously, that her ten years of happiness with Westall had developed another conception of the tie; a reversion, rather, to the old instinct of passionate dependency and possessorship that now made her blood revolt at the mere hint of change. }}