dominion vs shire

dominion

noun
  • A kingdom, nation, or other sphere of influence; governed territory. 

  • Power or the use of power; sovereignty over something; stewardship, supremacy. 

  • predominance; ascendancy 

  • kingdom 

  • An order of angel in Christian angelology, ranked above virtues and below thrones. 

shire

noun
  • A rural or outer suburban local government area of Australia. 

  • A shire horse. 

  • The general area in which a person lives or comes from, used in the context of travel within the United Kingdom. 

  • Physical area administered by a sheriff. 

  • Former administrative area of Britain; a county. 

verb
  • County Longford was shired in 1586 

  • To (re)constitute as one or more shires or counties. 

How often have the words dominion and shire occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )