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- determiner Obsolete spelling of
own . - verb Obsolete spelling of
own .
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Examples
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All yatte I call my owne is this my silver crouche
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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443: And what better or properer can we call our owne,
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1512: And nothing can we call our owne, but Death,
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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
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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
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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
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He hath a pasture of his owne which is both faire & sounde
Deed of Entail 1998
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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
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“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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“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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