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Definition of Possession

Possession The act or state of possessing, or holding as one's own. The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful. The thing possessed; that which any one occupies, owns, or controls; in the plural, property in the aggregate; wealth; dominion; as, foreign possessions. The state of being possessed or controlled, as by an evil spirit, or violent passions; madness; frenzy; as, demoniacal possession. To invest with property. Related Definitions: Act, Actual, Aggregate, An, Any, As, Being, By, Command, Controlled, Demoniacal, Detention, Dominion, Evil, Foreign, Frenzy, Having, Holding, In, Invest, Madness, Occupancy, Of, One, Or, Own, Ownership, Plural, Possessed, Possessing, Possession, Power, Property, Rightful, Seizin, Spirit, State, That, The, Thing, To, Violent, Wealth, Whether, Which, With, Wrongful

Possession Quotations Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. John Lennon Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time. Ralph Waldo Emerson One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession. Sophocles It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Jane Austen Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Possession Translations possession in Afrikaans is besit possession in Danish is ejendom, besiddelse possession in Dutch is bezitting, eigendom, bezit possession in French is possession possession in German is besitz possession in Italian is possesso possession in Latin is possessio possession in Norwegian is eiendom

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