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  1. Possessing

    of Possess

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of possessing in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of possessing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of possessing in a Sentence

  1. Madame de Lambert:

    The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.

  2. Bob Conklin:

    If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.

  3. Aristotle:

    Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

  4. Sara Teasdale:

    No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed.

  5. Virginia Woolf:

    Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size.

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