possessorship

English

Etymology

From possessor +‎ -ship.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pəˈzɛsəɹˌʃɪp/

Noun

possessorship (uncountable)

  1. The state of possessing something, possession.
    • 1846, Amanda Millie Douglas, A Little Girl of Long Ago‎:
      He experiences the overwhelming joy of possessorship, for she is his.
    • 1894, A. J. Gordon, The Ministry of the Spirit‎:
      As Christ manifested to the world the love of the Father, so are we to manifest the love of Christ--a manifestation, however, which is only possible because of our possessorship of a common life.
    • 1910, Edith Wharton, The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 2 (of 10)‎:
      It was unconsciously, insidiously, that her ten years of happiness with Westall had developed another conception of the tie; a reversion, rather, to the old instinct of passionate dependency and possessorship that now made her blood revolt at the mere hint of change.
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