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  • determiner Obsolete spelling of own.
  • verb Obsolete spelling of own.

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Examples

  • All yatte I call my owne is this my silver crouche

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • 443: And what better or properer can we call our owne,

    Timon of Athens (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

  • 1512: And nothing can we call our owne, but Death,

    Richard II (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

  • I may truly say, lose, reserving nothing unto us, that might properly be called our owne, nor that was either his or mine.

    Of Friendship. 1909

  • And because he is a Soveraign, he requireth Obedience to all his owne, that is, to all the Civill Laws; in which also are contained all the

    Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

  • I may truly say, lose, reserving nothing unto us, that might properly be called our owne, nor that was either his or mine.

    Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian Various 1562

  • He hath a pasture of his owne which is both faire & sounde

    Deed of Entail 1998

  • By allowing women to remake themselves, cosmetics violated the natural order: “And though she bee the creature of God, as she is a woman, yet is she her owne creatrisse, as a picture.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • “Whensoever any affliction assailes me, mee thinks I have the keyes of my prison in mine owne hand,” he wrote.

    History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011

  • “Whensoever any affliction assailes me, mee thinks I have the keyes of my prison in mine owne hand,” he wrote.

    History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011

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