The past is our own, the present is the owndom of the future.

Hence we maintain that man cannot be a man without property. He cannot be his own without an outward owndom.

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.

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[…]"

Owndom

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Noun

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