dominative

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The books include a number of erotic scenes and detailed descriptions of bondage, including dominative and submissive sex and sadism, and the film includes some of the same.

From Newsweek

There are exceptions, however, as when the third party renounces his right, or when the Pope, in virtue of his supreme authority over ecclesiastical goods or of his dominative authority, grants a dispensation for which there are just and sufficient reasons.

From Project Gutenberg

Here again a dispensation differs from an annulment, for the latter requires, not the power of jurisdiction, but only dominative or domestic power.

From Project Gutenberg

Power of Jurisdiction, and dominative power, 2356.

From Project Gutenberg

They became angry and dominative; and the more they thus exhibited themselves, the more scorn and contumely they encountered.

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