possessorship
Example Sentences
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He had never had much of the joy of possessorship in any of the thousand and one beautiful and curious things that were his; and now he was conscious of envy for what was another’s.
From Prince Otto, a Romance by Robert Louis Stevenson
Memory alone gives value to the products of every other faculty, stamping them with the seal of possessorship, and making them truly ours.
From In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education by John S. (John Seely) Hart
She turned and lifted a smile of possessorship to Ralph.
From The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
So her possessorship of Keith was a thing which—again in the dark and brooding hours of night—sometimes made him writhe in an agony of shame.
From The River's End by James Oliver Curwood
He had never had much of the joy of possessorship in any of the thousand and one beautiful and curious things that were his; and now he was conscious of envy for what was another’s.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
