Both Uses of
dominate
in
The Poisonwood Bible
- It said Khrushchev wanted to take over the Belgian Congo and deprive the innocent savages of becoming a free society, as part of his plan for world domination.†
Chpt 2 *domination = control or power over others
- Now everyone's pretending to set the record straight: they'll have their hearings, while Mobutu makes a show of changing all European-sounding place names to indigenous ones, to rid us of the sound of foreign domination.†
Chpt 5
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.