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noun

Dominion n.

Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling; independent right of possession, use, and control; sovereignty; supremacy. "I praised and honored him that liveth forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion." "To choose between dominion or slavery."

Superior prominence; predominance; ascendency. "Objects placed foremost ought... have dominion over things confused and transient."

That which is governed; territory over which authority is exercised; the tract, district, or county, considered as subject; as, the dominions of a king. Also used figuratively; as, the dominion of the passions.

pl. A supposed high order of angels; dominations. See Domination, 3. "By him were all things created... whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers."

Synonyms: Sovereignty; control; rule; authority; jurisdiction; government; territory; district; region.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dominion" Quotes from Famous Books

... man consider the original of this great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive that the Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon ...

— Historical and Political Essays • William Edward Hartpole Lecky

... with a personnel carefully selected from the best negro performers (of whom there are now several thousands in London), with the view of brightening and enlightening the existence of those unfortunate villagers hitherto beyond the range of the beneficent dominion of din. As an antidote to agricultural discontent we ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 26, 1920 • Various

... in international politics, the international politics of the western hemisphere. I found that he was distrustful of the growing power of the United States. He suspected a policy of Empire, a far-reaching scheme of influence, if not actual dominion, centred in Washington. He regarded the Monroe Doctrine as the root from which such an extension of power might grow. It was no business of mine to argue with him, though I am convinced that the citizens of the United States are of all peoples ...

— Gossamer - 1915 • George A. Birmingham

... meaning was that the American continent with all its huge resources, its potential value in the ages to come, had entered upon the sphere of world politics, and ultimately would hold in its hands the sceptre of world dominion. Even the British thought that we had come (p. 029) merely to assist the Mother Country in her difficulties. Those who were at the helm in Canada, however, knew that we were not fighting for the security of the Mother Country only, but for the security of Canadian ...

— The Great War As I Saw It • Frederick George Scott

... any one who had watched him leaning over the ship's bulwark, gazing into the sea, or pacing up and down with restless bearing and gloomy eyes, would scarcely have suspected that this reserved, irritable youth, who was only too often under the dominion of melancholy moods, had won only a short time before a noble human heart, and was on the way to the realization of his boldest dreams, the fulfilment of ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

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