Possessor
[pə'zɛsɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who possesses; one who occupies, holds, owns, or controls; one who has actual participation or enjoyment, generally of that which is desirable; a proprietor.
Typed by Chloe
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Owner, proprietor, master.[2]. Holder, occupant.
Typist: Lolita
Examples
- I therefore drew near and discovered that the possessor of the peering face was none other than Sab Than. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- We shall begin with the right of the present possessor. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- No organ will be formed, as Paley has remarked, for the purpose of causing pain or for doing an injury to its possessor. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Well, the phrase may mean powers so well established that their possessor always has them as resources when needed. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Separated from them; exalted in my heart; sole possessor of my affections; single object of my hopes, the best half of myself. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- You supposed me just now, to be the possessor of my father's property. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- As a consequence, mind, the source and possessor of knowledge, was thought of as wholly individual. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Conqueror I might be of the house; but the inmate would escape to heaven before I could call myself possessor of its clay dwelling-place. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I still had much to learn as to the depths of cruelty and bestiality to which omnipotence may drag its possessor. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I did truly regard you as the possessor of the most valuable thing the world owns for me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In some places the possessor had to the last kept watch on his store, and died before the barred gates. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I knew it to be the object of a conspiracy; and I was warned to take measures for Miss Verinder's protection, as the possessor of the stone. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- A baronet, the possessor of a fine estate, the descendant of a great family. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Mr. Guppy and Mr. Weevle are the possessors of those eyes, and they have been leaning in conversation against the low stone parapet under the trees. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The satisfaction we take in the riches of others, and the esteem we have for the possessors may be ascribed to three different causes. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Their kind sentiments awaken spontaneously towards the interesting possessors of it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- How should he, when their possessors so seldom know themselves? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
Edited by Colin