DISCUSSION: If you read the full sentence, you’ll see that the author is talking about how much power medieval widows had.
The scope of their “sway” was large, because some widows had multiple estates.
So if a widow had much “sway”, she had much power and influence.
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- This is one meaning of sway, but it’s not the one used. This word means: hesitation.
- CORRECT. “Dominion” means power, or influence.
- “Predisposition” means personality or preference, more or less. No definition of sway has this meaning.
- “Inclination” means preference. Sway doesn’t have that meaning.
- Sway never means meditation, least of all here.
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