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Possession

noun

The act of having and controlling property. Synonym: ownership.

Anything owned or possessed.

Being controlled by passion or the supernatural.

A mania restricted to one thing or idea. Synonym: monomania.

A territory that is controlled by a ruling state.

The trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior. Synonyms: self-command, self-control, self-possession, self-will, will power, willpower.

(sport) the act of controlling the ball (or puck).

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"Possession" Quotes from Famous Books

... seems, because we have developed ideas and sentiments which are opposed to this demoniac Nature,—much as voluntary movement is opposed to the blind power of gravitation. But the possession of such ideas and sentiments does but aggravate the atrocity of our situation, without lessening in the least the ...

— In Ghostly Japan • Lafcadio Hearn

... picture of Our Lady to Cardinal Ippolito de' Medici, his nephew, and the mirror-portrait to Messer Pietro Aretino, the poet, who was in his service, but the picture of the Circumcision he kept for himself; and it is believed that it came in time into the possession of the Emperor. The mirror-portrait I remember to have seen, when quite a young man, in the house of the same Messer Pietro Aretino at Arezzo, where it was sought out as a choice work by the strangers passing through that city. Afterwards it fell, I know ...

— Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects - Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto • Giorgio Vasari

... hour, the destiny of Switzerland stands revealed. At a time when the principle of nationality dominates the European situation with the strength of demoniacal possession, at a time when opposing civilisations are rending one another, our little state claims the honour of possessing a national ideal which dominates the nationalities and takes them all to its bosom. Does this seem like madness? Perhaps it does, to the sapient sceptic for whom ...

— The Forerunners • Romain Rolland

... now in possession of the State of Massachusetts, having been returned from England in 1897, called ...

— The Mayflower and Her Log, Complete • Azel Ames

... a distinction between beauty and grace, and have made them as it were rivals for the possession of the human heart; but grace may be defined beauty in action; for a sleeping beauty cannot be called graceful in whatever attitude she may recline; the muscles must be in action to produce a graceful attitude, ...

— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

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