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English
Etymology
From own + -dom, a calque of German Eigentum (“property”), from eigen (“own”) + -tum (“-dom”). Compare Saterland Frisian Oaindum (“property, possession”), Dutch eigendom, West Frisian eigendom.
Pronunciation
Noun
owndom (countable and uncountable, plural owndoms) (uncommon)
- Property.
1876, The Musical World:The past is our own, the present is the owndom of the future.
1895, Stephen Pearl Andrews, The science of society:Hence we maintain that man cannot be a man without property. He cannot be his own without an outward owndom.
1980, John Morris Dorsey, University professor John M. Dorsey:There must be a tormenting feeling of self-insufficiency in me until I can realize that my self-possession subsumes my all. I must endure my goading ambition until I can acknowledge ownership of all of my owndom.
- Personal belongings; possessions.
- A characteristic; quality; attribute; trait.
- Ownership; possession.
1894, Sturla Þórðarson, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Sir George Webbe Dasent, Icelandic sagas and other historical documents relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen on the British Isles:The king answers, and began first to say how Harold fair-hair had owned all the allodial land the Orkneys, "but the earls have held it since in fief, but never as their owndom […] "
- Control of oneself; self-mastery.