Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling; independent right of possession, use, and control; sovereignty; supremacy.
Superior prominence; predominance; ascendency.
That which is governed; territory over which authority is exercised; the tract, district, or county, considered as subject; as, the dominions of a king. Also used figuratively; as, the dominion of the passions.
A supposed high order of angels; dominations. See Domination, 3.
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. Pope John Paul II
You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself. Leonardo da Vinci
It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society. Murray Rothbard
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. Arthur Schopenhauer
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. Alexander Pope
dominion in Dutch is dominion
dominion in French is domination
dominion in German is Herrschaft, Oberherrschaft
dominion in Italian is egemonia
dominion in Latin is principatus
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