Meaning & use
dominion
Supreme power or authority to rule and control; also, the territory governed by such authority.
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The ancient empire claimed dominion over lands stretching from the coast to the mountains.
The king exercised absolute dominion over every aspect of the kingdom's laws.
A note on using this word
Dominion can name either the abstract power to control, as in 'dominion over nature,' or the concrete territory ruled, as in 'a dominion of the crown'; context distinguishes the two.
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