Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being peculiar to one's self.

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  • noun The property of being one's own.

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Examples

  • He described birds 'nests -- a lifelong interest -- as tiny miracles, places of safety, of "ownness," but also of vulnerability and risk.

    A Most Prolific Peasant Poet 2009

  • The urgency is now, this second, anyone with sagging pants should take the empowerment and ownness to pull them up, affix their belt snuggly, tighten their bootstraps, and walk with a stride that represents someone that cares about their image, self-perception, and more importantly their promising future.

    Tracey D. Smith: Charm School 101 for the College Student Tracey D. Smith 2010

  • In addition, how can one forget entirely the fact that Ereignis normally means "event," and that there are very good reasons to believe that, by understanding Sein verbally, and transitively, Ereignis does designate something like the recurrent event of being, as the giving or granting of ownness or properness?

    enowning enowning 2007

  • In addition, how can one forget entirely the fact that Ereignis normally means "event," and that there are very good reasons to believe that, by understanding Sein verbally, and transitively, Ereignis does designate something like the recurrent event of being, as the giving or granting of ownness or properness?

    Archive 2007-05-01 enowning 2007

  • Egoism properly understood is to be identified with what Stirner calls ˜ownness

    Max Stirner Leopold, David 2006

  • Consider, for example, Stirner's contrast between two different kinds of love: the ˜bad case™ where ˜ownness™ is sacrificed, and egoistic love in which self-mastery is retained.

    Max Stirner Leopold, David 2006

  • First, he values ˜ownness™ neither as one good amongst many, nor as the most important of several goods, but rather as the only good.

    Max Stirner Leopold, David 2006

  • Beyond all expression to have a "possession" whose "ownness" there's desperate doubt of,

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 23, 1891 Various

  • God is the heritage of the soul in the ownness of origin; man is the offspring of his making will, of his life; God himself is his birthplace;

    Unspoken Sermons Second Series 1824-1905 1885

  • For God is the heritage of the soul in the ownness of origin; man is the offspring of his making will, of his life; God himself is his birth-place; God is the self that makes the soul able to say _I too, I myself_.

    Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. George MacDonald 1864

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