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Possession vs Possessorship - What's the difference?

possession | possessorship |

As nouns the difference between possession and possessorship

is that possession is control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights while possessorship is the state of possessing something, possession.

As a verb possession

is to invest with property.

possession

English

Noun

(wikipedia possession) (en noun)
  • Control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.
  • Something that is owned.
    • The car quickly became his most prized possession .
    I would gladly give all of my worldly possessions just to be able to do that.
  • Ownership]]; [[take, taking, holding, keeping something as one's own.
    • The car is in my possession .
    I'm in possession of the car.
  • A territory under the rule of another country.
    • Réunion is the largest of France's overseas possessions .
  • The condition or affliction of being possessed by a demon or other supernatural entity.
    • Back then, people with psychiatric disorders were sometimes thought to be victims of demonic possession .
  • * Shakespeare
    • How long hath this possession held the man?
  • (sports) Control of the ball; the opportunity to be on the offensive.
    • The scoreboard shows a little football symbol next to the name of the team that has possession .
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Their first half was marred by the entire side playing too deep, completely unable to build up any form of decent possession once the ball left their bewildered defence.}}
  • (linguistics) A syntactic relationship between two nouns or nominals that may be used to indicate ownership.
    • 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.

    Usage notes

    * One who possesses is often said to have possession (of)'', ''hold possession (of)'', or ''be in possession (of) . * One who acquires is often said to take possession (of)'', ''gain possession (of)'', or ''come into possession (of) .

    Synonyms

    * ight (obsolete) * owndom, retention * See also

    Antonyms

    * absence

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To invest with property.
    • (Webster 1913)

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    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. }}