Synonyms:
dominion, rule
Meaning: dominance or power through legal authority; "France held undisputed dominion over vast areas of Africa"; "the rule of Caesar"
Usage examples
We desire no conquest, no dominion.
Fire in the hands of savage man gave him dominion over the forests and over the metals.
The fluctuating state of my mind produced a contention of opposite principles, that by turns usurped dominion over my conduct.
Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for this is thy dominion!
All their insignificance did not prevent their being an element of the greatest power to those who cultivated them, alike in revenue and in dominion.
Each of these, after the death of Theodosius, determined not to be governors merely, but to assume sovereign dominion over their respective provinces.
Superiority and inferiority, dominion and subjection are bound to a natural envy and contest, and must of necessity perpetually intrench upon one another.
All that was conceded to her was that Hercules should be put under the dominion of Eurystheus, King of Thebes, his eldest brother, a harsh and pitiless man.
Scattered over various parts of the dominion of Old Mexico are these Peublos, or Indian villages, called so because they are inhabited by Indians who bear that name.
For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller towns to subjection.
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