All 8 Uses of
dominate
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 13 chapter version
- As long as I live, the personality of Dorian Gray will dominate me.
Chpt 1 *dominate = control or strongly influence
- An ecstasy of happiness dominated her.†
Chpt 5dominated = controlled; or was most influential or powerful
- They love being dominated.†
Chpt 6
- He wondered if he would ever be so dominated by the personality of a friend.†
Chpt 7
- But it appeared to Dorian Gray that the true nature of the senses had never been understood, and that they had remained savage and animal merely because the world had sought to starve them into submission or to kill them by pain, instead of aiming at making them elements of a new spirituality, of which a fine instinct for beauty was to be the dominant characteristic.†
Chpt 9dominant = controlling; or most influential or powerful
- His dominant intellectual passion was for science.†
Chpt 12
- Campbell felt dominated by him.†
Chpt 12dominated = controlled; or was most influential or powerful
- I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.†
Chpt 7
Definitions:
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(1)
(dominate) to control; or to be most influential, powerful, abundant, important, or conspicuous
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, domination can refer to a high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy.