Definition of Overmastering

1. Verb. (present participle of overmaster) ¹

2. Adjective. Which overmasters; dominating, oppressive, conquering. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overmastering

1. overmaster [v] - See also: overmaster

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overmastering

overmantel
overmantels
overmany
overmarch
overmarched
overmarches
overmarching
overmarket
overmarketed
overmarketing
overmarkets
overmast
overmasted
overmaster
overmastered
overmastering (current term)
overmasters
overmasting
overmasts
overmatch
overmatched
overmatches
overmatching
overmature
overmaturities
overmaturity
overmeasure
overmeasures
overmeddle
overmeddled

Literary usage of Overmastering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Republic of Plato by Plato (1909)
""The so-called necessity of Diomede" of the text may well mean "an overmastering necessity." According to the Scholiast on this passage, ..."

2. The Works of Frederick Schiller by Friedrich Schiller, Henry George Bohn, Alexander James William Morrison (1872)
"The prize is worthy Of overmastering both. Up, be a man, Worthy of him in whom the virtues flow Of a young warrior's high, heroic heart; Courage ! my noble ..."

3. Pushing to the Front: Or, Success Under Difficulties; a Book of Inspiration by Orison Swett Marden (1894)
"What are hardships, contumely, slander, ridicule, persecution, toil, sickness, the feebleness of age, to a soul throbbing with an overmastering purpose ? ..."

4. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1876)
"... mind was so far recovered from the first i her case, I was in a position to put that con- overmastering shock as to leave her capable solation strongly. ..."

5. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1862)
"It is but another aspect, if we regard it seriously, of the author's early habit of treating passion or feeling as overmastering impulses, exonerating those ..."

6. Dutch Etchers of the Seventeenth Century by Laurence Binyon (1895)
"fatigue which was overmastering his powers. He was not yet thirty when he died, but his production had been immense. And in him, as sometimes happens, ..."

7. The Place of Immortality in Religious Belief: A Discourse by Joseph Estlin Carpenter (1898)
"... for release from the overmastering pressure of heredity or social circumstance, that they too may begin to live as ' Sons of the Highest'? ..."

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