Usage History of 'possess'

The following chart shows how frequently 'possess' appeared in printed materials over time. For example, the word 'possess' occurred 8 times in books in 1515 and 1,029,426 times in 2008. From 1515 to 2008, the word 'possess' was used a total of 25,984,671 times in books scanned by Google. See Reference: Google Ngram project.

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