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DOMINATIVE POWER
The right of authority over acts of persons in private societies, as husband over wife, parents over children, and master over servants. In Christianity this right is balanced by the duty to love.
All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.
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