1980, John Morris Dorsey, University professor John M. Dorsey:
There must be a tormenting feeling of self-insufficiency in me until I can realize that my self-possession subsumes my all. I must endure my goading ambition until I can acknowledge ownership of all of my owndom.
1895, Stephen Pearl Andrews, The science of society:
Hence we maintain that man cannot be a man without property. He cannot be his own without an outward owndom.
1876, The Musical World:
The past is our own, the present is the owndom of the future.
1894, Sturla Þórðarson, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Sir George Webbe Dasent, Icelandic sagas and other historical documents relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen on the British Isles:
The king answers, and began first to say how Harold fair-hair had owned all the allodial land the Orkneys, "but the earls have held it since in fief, but never as their owndom..."