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Definition of Overstepped
1. overstep [v] - See also: overstep
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overstepped
Literary usage of Overstepped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... to make needless difficulties about conforming to things as they were.
sometimes overstepped even the wide bounds allowed him, and felt the vengeance of ..."
2. The Literary History of the American Revolution, 1763-1783 by Moses Coit Tyler (1897)
"... the people addressed by him—His. denial that the British government had
overstepped its constitutional limits —The several topics discussed by him. IV. ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... to "reconcile" Catholic dogma with modern philosophical opinion, were influenced
by the transcendentalists and overstepped the boundaries of orthodoxy. ..."
4. Public Characters by Alexander Stephens (1807)
"I trust I have not overstepped thc- limits within which the writer of the Grecian
history ... overstepped ..."
5. A Treatise on Asiatic Cholera by Edmund Charles Wendt, John Charles Peters (1885)
"... shall seem best after a careful examination of the local requirements, the
limit of the quarantine not to be overstepped. " (c. ..."
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