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possession
  1. Control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.
  2. Something that is owned.
  3. Ownership; taking, holding, keeping something as one's own.
  4. A territory under the rule of another country.
  5. The condition or affliction of being possessed by a demon or other supernatural entity.
  6. (sports) Control of the ball; the opportunity to be on the offensive.
  7. (linguistics) A syntactic relationship between two nouns or nominals that may be used to indicate ownership.
  8. Synonyms:
  9. Examples:
    1. “It was the first trophy ever won by the college and it remains a most treasured possession.”
      “He loaded Francesca and all her possessions into his car.”
      “Once, an empty vodka bottle came into my possession somehow.”
possessioner
  1. (obsolete) A possessor; a holder of property.
  2. (derogatory) A member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc., as contrasted with mendicant friars.
possessee
  1. (grammar) Verb complement in some languages or some constructions of a given language; the noun which is possessed.
  2. The subject of a possession by a demon or spirit.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “In some languages, the possessee refers to the entity being possessed by the subject in a sentence.”
      “The story gets wildly out of hand as renegade exorcist James Olsen kidnaps the possessee from jail and drags him to the house for a climactic display of head-splitting make-up effects and noisy ritual chanting.”
possessive
  1. (grammar) The possessive case.
  2. (grammar) A word used to indicate the possessive case.
possessorship
  1. The state of possessing something, possession.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He knew that he was touching a sensitive chord, for Bessy had to the full her sex's pride of possessorship.”
      “Archer was proud of the glances turned on her, and the simple joy of possessorship cleared away his underlying perplexities.”
      “Suddenly, at the sight, a rage of possessorship awoke in her.”
possessor
  1. Agent noun of possess; one who possesses.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “And the priest remembered, with a subconscious thrill, that she was indeed older in type and lineage and was the true possessor of the place.”
      “This question seems a valid one, but one should remember that such a stance might put the possessor of the truth in an invidious situation.”
      “He said that the law which defined the liability of the possessor of land in cases of that kind had been settled for many years.”
possesser
  1. A person who possesses something; an owner.
possessionlessness
  1. The state or condition of having no possessions.
possessoress
  1. (rare, dated) A female possessor.
possessivity
  1. (grammar) The quality of being possessive.
possessiveness
  1. The quality of being possessive
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Her possessiveness over money led her to hoard every penny she earned, never allowing herself any luxuries.”
      “My friend's possessiveness towards her partner stemmed from past experiences of betrayal, leading to a lack of trust and feelings of insecurity.”
      “He wanted especially to believe that he was in this case acting in a manner uncontaminated by public ambition or sexual possessiveness.”
possessedness
  1. The quality of being possessed.
possessour
  1. Obsolete form of possessor.
possessum
  1. (linguistics) Something which is possessed.
possesion
  1. Misspelling of possession.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The individual was in possesion of the same magnets and we are currently examining the source of the magnet.”
      “The renter undertakes to keep possesion of the keys to the vehicle in a responsible manner.”
      “Anyone over the age of 17 with exclusive possesion of the property without the owner's consent can potentially claim squatters' rights.”
possessioners
  1. plural of possessioner
possessions
  1. plural of possession
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The family was distraught on Monday after a lifetime's possessions were reduced to ashes in just minutes.”
      “Even so, advisers recommend taking photographs of valuable possessions and keeping receipts for as many things as possible.”
      “Bags are a girl's best friend, allowing women to keep their must-have possessions close at hand.”
possessives
  1. plural of possessive
  2. Examples:
    1. “More or less the same story can be told of the binding patterns in certain inalienable possessives and idiomatic constructions in English.”
      “Prenominal possessives normally function as definite expressions.”
      “The genitives his, hiere, hiera are used as indeclinable possessives.”
possessours
  1. plural of possessour
possessa
  1. plural of possessum
possessers
  1. plural of possesser
possessums
  1. plural of possessum
possessees
possessors
  1. plural of possessor
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “And, of course, Mike and Kitty are the proud possessors of Jim's Lonsdale Belt won for those successful defences on his British title.”
      “In partial contrast, early knowledge programs attempted to disembody all knowledge from its possessors to make it an organizational asset.”
      “But the certainty of retaliation and mass destruction has kept nuclear weapons possessors from using them.”
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