owndom

Noun

owndom (countable and uncountable, plural owndoms)

1. (uncommon) Property.
   • The past is our own, the present is the owndom of the future.1876, The Musical World
   • Hence we maintain that man cannot be a man without property. He cannot be his own without an outward owndom.1895, Stephen Pearl Andrews, The science of society

   Synonyms:

   belongings, aught, possession, property, propriety

2. (uncommon) Personal belongings; possessions.
3. (uncommon) A characteristic; quality; attribute; trait.

   Synonyms:

   race, attribute, characteristic, designation, vein, distinctiveness, feature, hallmark, parameter, property

4. (uncommon) Ownership; possession.
   • 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as their owndom[…]"1894, Sturla Þórðarson, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Sir George Webbe Dasent, Icelandic sagas and other historical documents relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen on the British Isles

   Synonyms:

   proprietorship, ownership, possession, propriety

5. (uncommon) Control of oneself; self-mastery.