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Dominus

American  
[doh-mi-noos, dom-i-] / ˈdoʊ mɪˌnus, ˈdɒm ɪ- /

noun

Latin.
  1. God; the Lord.


Dominus British  
/ ˈdɒmɪnʊs /

noun

  1. God or Christ

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Here’s Kate Dominus again reading her grandmother’s work.

From Scientific American • Nov. 11, 2021

“We had 80-year-old carignan vines at Napanook vineyard in the 1980s,” she says, recalling her early years with Moueix at Dominus.

From Washington Post • Oct. 8, 2021

Mr. Wachner kept them so quiet, his hands almost never came above his waist while he conducted; by contrast, he practically danced through Handel’s spirited Dixit Dominus in the evening’s second half.

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2018

Does the firm’s Dominus Valley winery in Yountville, California, look like a flat black block?

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2018

Volens autem Dominus de Wahull' retinere ad opus suum totum parcum de Segheho, et totum dominicum de Broccheburg', fecit metiri tertiam partem in bosco et in plano.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul