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Domination   /dˌɑmənˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Domination  n.  
1.
The act of dominating; exercise of power in ruling; dominion; supremacy; authority; often, arbitrary or insolent sway. "In such a people, the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom."
2.
A ruling party; a party in power. (R.)
3.
pl. A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy; a meaning given by the schoolmen. "Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers."






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"Domination" Quotes from Famous Books



... not efficient in good, the Amphictyonic council was not active in evil. Many causes conspired to prevent the worst excesses to which religious domination is prone,—and this cause in particular. It was not composed of a separate, interested, and permanent class, but of citizens annually chosen from every state, who had a much greater interest in the welfare of their own state ...
— Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... Italian ambitions end with the domination of the eastern shore of the Adriatic. With the destruction, or at least the disablement, of the Austrian Empire, Italy dreams of bringing within her political and commercial sphere of influence a considerable portion of the Balkan Peninsula, from which she is separated by only ...
— Italy at War and the Allies in the West • E. Alexander Powell

... citizen, to summon the people to an assembly, than for them to convene the senate. They might try, whenever they pleased, how much more determined a sense of wrong will be found to be in vindicating one's own liberty, than ambition in (vindicating) usurped domination. That they proposed the question concerning the Sabine war, as if the Roman people had any more important war on hand, than that against those who, having been elected for the purpose of framing laws, had left no law ...
— The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 • Titus Livius

... Labour and Socialist party filled the empty benches of the Liberals—a revolutionary, enthusiastic crew, of whom the country was a little frightened, and who were, if the truth were known, a little frightened at themselves. They had a coherent programme, and represented a formidable "domination" in English life. And that English life itself, in all that concerned the advance and transformation of labour, was in a singularly tossed and troubled state. After a long period of stagnation and comparative industrial ...
— Sir George Tressady, Vol. I • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... himself Emperor of Delhi in 1206, built the great Mosque of Kuwwet-el-Islam, "The Power of Islam," and the lofty minaret, still known by his name, from which for six centuries the Moslem call to prayer went forth to proclaim Mahomedan domination over India. ...
— India, Old and New • Sir Valentine Chirol


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