masterdom
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a word derived from
master.
masternouna person with the ability or power to use, control, or dispose of something.
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
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There had been a struggle for the masterdom between two men, and of the two the one had beaten with whom Cicero had not ranged himself.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Anthony Trollope
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
The look of masterdom had both hardened and softened.
From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
The life in the wilderness, and then in the dominance and masterdom of enterprise, had hardened and strengthened him into more self-reliant manhood, giving him greater forbearance and a more practical view of things.
From The Man by Bram Stoker