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dominion🔊

Power or the use of power; sovereignty over something; stewardship, supremacy.

💬 Quotations
And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:

Predominance; ascendancy.

(sometimes figurative) A kingdom, nation, or other sphere of influence; governed territory.

💬 Quotations
Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for this is thy dominion!

(taxonomy) The highest rank in the classification of organisms.

(Christianity) An order of angel in Christian angelology, ranked above virtues and below thrones.

📑 Synonyms: domination