possessorship

Example Sentences

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She had given herself up to the insistent possessorship and company of her son.

From Over the Pass by Palmer, Frederick

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 Stevenson, Robert Louis

As the thought of Haskett receded, Waythorn felt himself yielding again to the joy of possessorship.

From The Descent of Man and Other Stories by Wharton, Edith

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 Curwood, James Oliver

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 Stevenson, Robert Louis