owndom

From own +‎ -dom, a loan-translation of German Eigentum (“property”), from eigen (“own”) + -tum (“-dom”). Compare Saterland Frisian Oaindum (“property, possession”), West Frisian eigendom. More at own, -dom.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊndəm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊndəm/

owndom (plural owndoms)

1. Property.
   • 1980, John Morris Dorsey, University professor John M. Dorsey:

     There must be a tormenting feeling of self-insufficiency in me until I can realize that my self-possession subsumes my all. I must endure my goading ambition until I can acknowledge ownership of all of my owndom.

   • 1895, Stephen Pearl Andrews, The science of society:

     Hence we maintain that man cannot be a man without property. He cannot be his own without an outward owndom.

   • 1876, The Musical World:

     The past is our own, the present is the owndom of the future.

2. Personal belongings; possessions.
3. A characteristic; quality; attribute; trait.
4. Ownership; possession.
   • 1894, Sturla Þórðarson, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Sir George Webbe Dasent, Icelandic sagas and other historical documents relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen on the British Isles:

     The king answers, and began first to say how Harold fair-hair had owned all the allodial land the Orkneys, "but the earls have held it since in fief, but never as their owndom [...]"

5. Control of oneself; self-mastery.