dominion

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It's pretty funny to see one person claim dominion and authority over another person's inner state.

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dominance or power through legal authority; "France held undisputed dominion over vast areas of Africa"; "the rule of Caesar"

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noun

dominance or power through legal authority; "France held undisputed dominion over vast areas of Africa"; "the rule of Caesar"

noun

a region marked off for administrative or other purposes

noun

one of the self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for dominion.

noun

dominance or power through legal authority; "France held undisputed dominion over vast areas of Africa"; "the rule of Caesar"

noun

a region marked off for administrative or other purposes

noun

one of the self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth

Example sentences

It's pretty funny to see one person claim dominion and authority over another person's inner state.

That is in fact the whole purpose of securing and controlling territory--to establish dominion over that territory and those within.

It is consequent also to the same condition that there be no propriety, no dominion, no mine and thine distinct, but only that to be every mans that he can get, and for so long as he can keep it.

"The agency has dominion over any part of a vehicle sold in the United States, from the headlamps to the owners manual, but cant regulate the speech of a corporation or its employees.

And yet when approached by Ho Chi Minh in the late 40s about supporting the end of colonial rule in Vietnam and instituting a constitution similar to the US's, the US decided to reinforce French dominion instead.

There was a pretty good two-parter on DS9 where an admiral took advantage of the fear around the dominion war to over-step his bounds and implement secretive/draconian security measures until Sisko "blows the whistle.

"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.