Dominion vs. Possession — What's the Difference?

The word Dominion was used from 1907 to 1948 to refer to one of several self-governing nations of the British Empire. "Dominion status" was formally accorded to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland, South Africa, and the Irish Free State at the 1926 Imperial Conference to designate "autonomous communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs, though united by a common allegiance to the Crown and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations”.

The act or fact of possessing.

Control or the exercise of control; sovereignty

The state of being possessed

A territory or sphere of influence or control; a realm.

Something owned or possessed

Often Dominion A self-governing nation under the nominal rule of the British monarch.

A territory subject to foreign control.

Dominions(Christianity) See domination.

Power or control over something

Power or the use of power; sovereignty over something; stewardship, supremacy.

Occupation or control of a piece of property, with or without ownership.

Predominance; ascendancy

A right of occupation and use

A kingdom, nation, or other sphere of influence; governed territory.

The crime of possessing an illegal drug.

(taxonomy) kingdom

The state of being dominated or controlled by a demon or spirit.

(Christianity) An order of angel in Christian angelology, ranked above virtues and below thrones.

The state of being occupied or obsessed with something, such as an idea.

Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling; independent right of possession, use, and control; sovereignty; supremacy.

Physical control of the ball or puck by a player or team.

Superior prominence; predominance; ascendency.

An instance of this

That which is governed; territory over which authority is exercised; the tract, district, or county, considered as subject; as, the dominions of a king. Also used figuratively; as, the dominion of the passions.

Control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.

A supposed high order of angels; dominations. See Domination, 3.

Something that is owned.

Dominance or power through legal authority;

Ownership; taking, holding, keeping something as one's own.

A region marked off for administrative or other purposes

A territory under the rule of another country.

One of the self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth

The condition or affliction of being possessed by a demon or other supernatural entity.

The condition of being under the control of strong emotion or madness.

(sports) Control of the ball; the opportunity to be on the offensive.

(Australian rules football) A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.

(linguistics) A syntactic relationship between two nouns or nominals that may be used to indicate ownership.

(obsolete) To invest with property.

The act or state of possessing, or holding as one's own.

The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful.

The thing possessed; that which any one occupies, owns, or controls; in the plural, property in the aggregate; wealth; dominion; as, foreign possessions.

The state of being possessed or controlled, as by an evil spirit, or violent passions; madness; frenzy; as, demoniacal possession.

To invest with property.

The act of having and controlling property

Anything owned or possessed

Being controlled by passion or the supernatural

A mania restricted to one thing or idea

A territory that is controllled by a ruling state

The trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior

(sport) the act of controlling the ball (or puck);