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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

-dom (…).

A suffix denoting: (a) Jurisdiction or property and jurisdiction, dominion, as in kingdom earldom. (b) State, condition, or quality of being, as in wisdom, freedom. It is from the same root as doom meaning authority and judgment. …. See Doom.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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