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| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers |
| Division (II) Intersocial Volition |
| Section IV. Possessive Relations |
| 1. Property in general |
| 779. Possessor. |
| NOUN: | POSSESSOR, holder; occupant, occupier; tenant; person or man in possession [See Possession]; renter, lodger, lessee, underlessee; zamindar or zemindar [India]; ryot [India]; tenant -on sufferance, - at will, - from year to year, - for years, - for life. OWNER; proprietor, proprietress, proprietary; impropriator, master, mistress, lord. LANDHOLDER, landowner, landlord, landlady; lord -of the manor, - paramount; heritor [Scots law], laird [Scot.], vavasor or vavasour [feud. law]; landed gentry, mesne lord; planter. BENEFICIARY, cestui que (or qui) trust [law], mortgagor. GRANTEE, feoffee, feoffee in trust, releasee, devisee; legatee, legatary [rare]. TRUSTEE; holder &c. of the legal estate; mortgagee. right owner, rightful owner. [FUTURE POSSESSOR] heir, - apparent, - presumptive; inheritor, reversioner; remainder-man; heiress, inheritress, inheritrix. |
| QUOTATION: | ’Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands.—Othello |
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