The fathers shall not bee put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: euery man shall be put to death for hisowne sinne.
I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by hisown guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.
He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for hisown.
The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you[…] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of theirown attention.
Often used for implication of ownership, often with emphasis. In modern usage, it always follows a possessive determiner, or a noun in the possessive case.
2017,Angela Nagle, “Basic bitches, normies and the lamestream”, inKill All Normies, Zero Books,→ISBN:
All the ‘MiloOWNS stupid feminist’ type of videos today are made with much the same style as the new atheist videos that were equally numerous on YouTube a few years before with titles like ‘HITCHSLAP. HitchensOWNS stupid Christian woman’.
(transitive,computing,slang) To illicitly obtainsuperuser orroot access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system.
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For instance, when I flung the cat out of an upper window (though I did it from no ill-feeling, and it didn't hurt the cat), I was ready, after a moment's reflection, toown I was wrong, as a gentleman should.
They learned how perfectly peaceful the home could be. And they almost regretted—though none of them would haveowned to such callousness—that their father was soon coming back.
Representative Nancy Mace, Republican of South Carolina, told reporters that Democrats “own” the assassination of Mr. Kirk. When a reporter questioned her about attacks on Democrats, she cut him off. “Democratsown this,” she said. “We’re talking about Charlie Kirk right now.”
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Universal Dictionary of the English Language[UDEL], volume 3,1896, page3429: “To possess by right; to have the right of property in; to have the legal right or rightful title to.”
↑1.01.11.21.31.4Kathleen A. Browne (1927), “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, inJournal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)[1], volume17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
^Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page18
