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1,402 words match “DOM”

SUPERDOMINANT n.
The sixth tone of the scale; that next above the dominant; -- called also submediant.
SWELLDOM n.
People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively. [Jocose]
THANEDOM n.
The property or jurisdiction of a thane; thanage. Sir W. Scott.
THEDOM n.
Success; fortune; luck; chance. [Obs.] Evil thedom on his monk's snout. Chaucer.
THRALDOM n.
The condition of a thrall; slavery; bondage; state of servitude. [Written also thralldom.] Women are born to thraldom and penance And to be under man's governance. Chaucer. He shall rule, and she in thraldom live. Dryden.
THRALLDOM n.
Thraldom.
UDOMETER n.
A rain gauge.
UNDERKINGDOM n.
A subordinate or dependent kingdom. Tennyson.
UNDOMESTICATE v.
To make wild or roving.
UNSELDOM adv.
Not seldom; frequently. [R.]
UNWISDOM n.
Want of wisdom; unwise conduct or action; folly; simplicity; ignorance. Sumptuary laws are among the exploded fallacies which we have outgrown, and we smile at the unwisdom which could except to regulate private habits and manners by statute. J. A. Froude.
UPPERTENDOM n.
The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper. [Colloq.]
USHERDOM n.
The office or position of an usher; ushership; also, ushers, collectively. [R.]
WHOREDOM n. 2 definitions
The sin of worshiping idols; idolatry. O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled; they will not . . . turn unto their God. Hos. v. 3, 4.
WISDOM n. 2 definitions
ment; discretion; sagacity; skill; dexterity. We speak also not in wise words of man's wisdom, but in the doctrine of the spirit. Wyclif (1 Cor. ii. 13). Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding. Job xxviii. 28. It is hoped that our rulers will act with dignity and wisdom t…
WISDOM LITERATURE n.
is comprised chiefly in the books of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiasticus, Ecclesiastes, and Wisdom of Solomon. The "wisdom" (Hokhmah) of these writings consists in detached sage utterances on concrete issues of life, without the effort at philosophical system that appeared in the later Hellenistic reflective writing beginni…
ABAND v.
To abandon. [Obs.] Enforced the kingdom to aband. Spenser.
ABANDON n.
A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.
ABANDONMENT n.
Careless freedom or ease; abandon. [R.] Carlyle.
ACCOMPLISHMENT n.
hments befitting a station." Thackeray. Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, And wisdom falls before exterior grace. Cowper.
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