possess
verb (used with object)
to have as belonging to one; have as property; own.
possessorship
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a word derived from
possess.
Example Sentences
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So her possessorship of Keith was a thing which—again in the dark and brooding hours of night—sometimes made him writhe in an agony of shame.
From The River's End by James Oliver Curwood
Suddenly, at the sight, a rage of possessorship awoke in her.
From The Reef by Edith Wharton
She was not meddlesome, nor over-curious generally, but with a feeling of possessorship and responsibility in the house, she wanted to know how far she could trust the newcomers.
From A Little Girl in Old Salem by Amanda Minnie Douglas
He had never had much of the joy of possessorship in any of the thousand and one beautiful and curious things that were his; and now he was conscious of envy for what was another’s.
From Prince Otto, a Romance by Robert Louis Stevenson
Memory alone gives value to the products of every other faculty, stamping them with the seal of possessorship, and making them truly ours.
From In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education by John S. (John Seely) Hart
