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dominion
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    There's a sense of sovereignty that comes from life on a mountain, a perception of privacy and isolation, even of dominion.  (source)
    dominion = dominance and power
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    The soldiers of the common man may toss the banners of the old regime on the victory pyre, but soon enough trumpets will blare and pomp will take its place at the side of the throne, having once again secured its dominion over history and kings.  (source)
    dominion = dominance or authority
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    As Dickens wrote, "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!"  (source)
    dominion = area where one rules
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    Messengers had passed to and fro between all their cities, colonies and strongholds; for they resolved now to win the dominion of the North.  (source)
    dominion = dominance or power over others
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    When I fell into the dream alongside of both of them, I saw that the dominions I had defended myself from anciently was but delusions of the screen.†  (source)
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    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!  (source)
    dominion = kingdom (place where one rules)
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    I hear that excitement is the master of the hour, that you fling yourself through these dominions like a comet across the firmament.†  (source)
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    As the days went by, other dogs came, in crates and at the ends of ropes, some docilely, and some raging and roaring as he had come; and, one and all, he watched them pass under the dominion of the man in the red sweater.  (source)
    dominion = dominance and power
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    The dominions of kings are limited either by mountains or rivers, or a change of manners, or an alteration of language.†  (source)
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    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.  (source)
    dominion = kingdom (the area he ruled)
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    You had fled from England, not exiled Or threatened, mind you; but in the hope Of stirring up trouble in the French dominions.†  (source)
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    The brotherhood's dominion seemed limitless.  (source)
    dominion = area of influence
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    We shall enter it with a clear conscience, with the support of the Dominions and the British Empire, and the moral approval of the greater part of the world.†  (source)
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    A little later there's the Dominion Observatory Official Tune Signal: first a series of outer space beeps, then silence, then a long dash.  (source)
    Dominion = part of a name
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    She was also active in the Granite Club, the Heliconian Club, the Junior League, and the Dominion Drama Festival.  (source)
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