Possessor
noun
Someone who has something or owns it.
As the possessor of a large fortune, he was able to live a life of luxury.
Often appears as...
- possessor of a fortune
- legal possessor
noun
Someone who has something or owns it.
As the possessor of a large fortune, he was able to live a life of luxury.
Often appears as...
- possessor of a fortune
- legal possessor
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Pro Tip 1/3Ownership Indication
Use 'possessor' to indicate that someone legally owns an item or property.
The possessor of the document was called to testify.
Pro Tip 2/3Temporal Aspect
'Possessor' refers to having something at the present time and doesn't imply permanent ownership.
He is the current possessor of the championship title.
Pro Tip 3/3Transferable Possession
'Possessor' is suitable when discussing objects that can be given or transferred to others.
As the possessor of the rare coin, she could sell it.
Pro Tip 1/3Ownership Indication
Use 'possessor' to indicate that someone legally owns an item or property.
The possessor of the document was called to testify.
Pro Tip 2/3Temporal Aspect
'Possessor' refers to having something at the present time and doesn't imply permanent ownership.
He is the current possessor of the championship title.
Pro Tip 3/3Transferable Possession
'Possessor' is suitable when discussing objects that can be given or transferred to others.
As the possessor of the rare coin, she could sell it.
Pro Tip 1/3Ownership Indication
Use 'possessor' to indicate that someone legally owns an item or property.
The possessor of the document was called to testify.
Pro Tip 2/3Temporal Aspect
'Possessor' refers to having something at the present time and doesn't imply permanent ownership.
He is the current possessor of the championship title.
Pro Tip 3/3Transferable Possession
'Possessor' is suitable when discussing objects that can be given or transferred to others.
As the possessor of the rare coin, she could sell it.
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Why theater is essential...
because at that moment, I'm not the possessor of truth; I'm a guy with an opinion. And I'm talking to somebody else. And you know what? That other person has an opinion too, and it's drama, remember, conflict -- they disagree with me.
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Why theater is essential...
because at that moment, I'm not the possessor of truth; I'm a guy with an opinion. And I'm talking to somebody else. And you know what? That other person has an opinion too, and it's drama, remember, conflict -- they disagree with me.
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Giordano Bruno
Italian Philosopher
See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into her hands, she either breaks or lets it fall from her hands, or causes it to be removed by the violence of another, or suffocates and poisons, or taints with suspicion, fear and jealousy to the great hurt and ruin of the possessor.
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Hussein of Jordan
Jordanian Royalty
God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.
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George Sutherland
English Judge
For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time.
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Jane Austen
British Writer
The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.
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Andrew Carnegie
Scottish Businessman
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
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James Fenimore Cooper
American Writer
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
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Christian Nestell Bovee
American Author
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Ravi Zacharias
American Author
Truth that is not undergirded by love makes the truth obnoxious and the possessor of it repulsive.
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Michel de Montaigne
French Philosopher
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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William Pitt
British Leader
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
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Giordano Bruno
Italian Philosopher
See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into her hands, she either breaks or lets it fall from her hands, or causes it to be removed by the violence of another, or suffocates and poisons, or taints with suspicion, fear and jealousy to the great hurt and ruin of the possessor.
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Hussein of Jordan
Jordanian Royalty
God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.
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George Sutherland
English Judge
For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time.
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Jane Austen
British Writer
The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.
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Andrew Carnegie
Scottish Businessman
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
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James Fenimore Cooper
American Writer
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
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Christian Nestell Bovee
American Author
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Ravi Zacharias
American Author
Truth that is not undergirded by love makes the truth obnoxious and the possessor of it repulsive.
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Michel de Montaigne
French Philosopher
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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William Pitt
British Leader
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
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