Definition of "possessorship" []

• The state of possessing something, possession. (noun)

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• "Lily had taken it, at first with the confidence of assured possessorship, then with gradually narrowing demands, till now she found herself actually struggling for a foothold on the broad space which had once seemed her own for the asking."
• "One of us, at least, was stirred at Renard's calm assumption -- the assumption so common to artists, who, when they see a good thing at once count on its possessorship, as if the whole world, indeed, were eternally sitting, agape with impatience, awaiting the advent of some painter to sketch in its portrait."
• "Archer was proud of the glances turned on her, and the simple joy of possessorship cleared away his underlying perplexities."