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Dominus

American  
[doh-mi-noos, dom-i-] / ˈdoʊ mɪˌnus, ˈdɒm ɪ- /

noun

Latin.
  1. God; the Lord.


Dominus British  
/ ˈdɒmɪnʊs /

noun

  1. God or Christ

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Here’s Kate Dominus again, reading her grandmother’s unfinished biography.

From Scientific American • Nov. 11, 2021

“We had 80-year-old carignan vines at Napanook vineyard in the 1980s,” she says, recalling her early years with Moueix at Dominus.

From Washington Post • Oct. 8, 2021

“Schine takes her readers on deep philosophical dives but resurfaces with craft and humor,” Susan Dominus writes in her review; “her tone is amused and amusing.”

From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2019

Does the firm’s Dominus Valley winery in Yountville, California, look like a flat black block?

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2018

Ad idem, Exodi tricesimo secundo: Domine ostende mihi faciem tuam et Dominus respondit: Ego ostendam tibi omne bonum, et postea ostendit ei omnia posteriora, id est, turpitudinem.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles