master
noun
a person with the ability or power to use, control, or dispose of something.
masterdom
-
a word derived from
master.
Example Sentences
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Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom.
From Time Magazine Archive
His heart grew lighter, his head clearer, and by the time the two ladies with their attendant appeared, he felt such a masterdom over Kelpie as he had never felt before.
From The Marquis of Lossie by George MacDonald
But, when probed to the quick upon it, they show at the bottom of their souls pride and vain-glory in their very condition of masterdom.
From Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. by Josiah Quincy
With Shakespeare—and assuredly not with Aeschylus—righteousness itself seems subject and subordinate to the masterdom of fate: but fate itself, in the tragic world of Webster, seems merely the servant or the synonyme of chance.
From The Age of Shakespeare by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Masterdom means power, rule; to invocate Apollo's masterdom is therefore to invocate Apollo's power to assist the Friar in his undertaking.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt
