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dominance or power over others; or a region so dominated

France held undisputed dominion over vast areas of Africa.

dominion = dominance or power

His dominion extends as far as they eye can see.

dominion = dominance or power over others

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!
Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol

dominion = region where one rules

Your royal Highness, if you had given that challenge a week ago, I'll answer for it—there was no one in King Edmund's dominion, from the High King down to the smallest Talking Mouse, who would have refused it.
C.S. Lewis -- The Horse and His Boy

dominion = kingdom (the area he ruled)

With the other horses gone, his snorting fury had dominion of the air and seemed to grow with each resounding echo from the walls.
Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
Was all this not merely Yankee carcinoma, spreading its growth into my beloved Old Dominion?
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
— NOTES FROM THE WARDEN'S DAILY JOURNAL, Provincial Penitentiary, Kingston, Ontario, The Dominion of Canada.
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
Will you join them in a fight against our sudden quest for dominion?
Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
That must not happen in the dominion of our queen, the most powerful ruler in the world.
Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart
When Astaroth is victorious, they shall hold dominion and rule as noble lords upon this earth!
Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan
But I do not want to be the president who built empires, or sought grandeur, or extended dominion.
Lyndon B. Johnson -- We Shall Overcome
The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The symbol of the first is the virtuous sword, of the second, the scepter of dominion, or the book of the law.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
But power and dominion over others—those things that Galbatorix sought—they hold little appeal for me.
Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of the plague was ended.
Albert Camus -- The Plague
I hear that excitement is the master of the hour, that you fling yourself through these dominions like a comet across the firmament.
Neil Gaiman -- The Graveyard Book
My evil destiny pursued me as if in exultation, and proved, indeed, that the exercise of its mysterious dominion had as yet only begun.
Edgar Allan Poe -- William Wilson
Surely, if we have learned nothing else, this war has taught us pity—pity for those witless souls that suffer our dominion.
H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds
It was quite deserted; not even wild animals seemed to have used it in all the days of Smaug's dominion.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Hobbit
A population will soon be in actual occupation of California, over which it will be idle for Mexico to dream of dominion.
John O'Sullivan -- Annexation (Texas)

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