“We were finding people in possession of thousands of paper prescriptions,” he said.
If we begin to see the other as our possession and commodity, our shoe, the shadow of our shadow, is there ever a happy outcome?
By the same token, maybe we need different words for possession.
Power is a visitor to, not a possession of, those it empowers.
When detectives raided her store and found the silk in her possession, they arrested her.
He was a farmer's son, and seldom had any money in his possession.
Had they still been in his possession, that would have been some compensation.
They fought each other for the possession of this wonderful land.
On the invasion of William, as we have seen, it was in the possession of Edwin, sovereign of Deira.
There are consciousnesses of lack which carry more bliss than any possession.
mid-14c., "act or fact of possessing, a taking possession, occupation," also "thing possessed, that which is possessed," from Old French possession "fact of having and holding; what is possessed;" also "demonic possession," and directly from Latin possessionem (nominative possessio), noun of action from past participle stem of possidere "to possess" (see possess). Legal property sense is earliest; demonic sense first recorded 1580s. Phrase possession is nine (or eleven) points of the law is out of a supposed 10 (or 12). With eleven from 1640s; with nine from 1690s.
noun
The state of having illegal drugs (1970+)
