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Definition of Domineered
1. domineer [v] - See also: domineer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Domineered
Literary usage of Domineered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1800)
"All the world over before in most slavish subjection, (saith m Eusebius,) in
divers forms, Christ's time, he freely domineered, and held the souls of men ..."
2. Historical Essays of Macaulay: William Pitt, Early of Chatham; The Earl of by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1892)
"... nor a prophet in the latter, but in both cases a great and good man, led into
extravagance by a sensibility which domineered over all his faculties. ..."
3. On the Study of Celtic Literature ; And, On Translating Homer by Matthew Arnold (1893)
"... and we all teach them to our children, and armies speaking them have domineered
in every city of that Germany by which the British Celt was broken, ..."
4. The History of Modern Europe: And a View of the Progress of Society from the by William Russell (1837)
"The municipality of Paris domineered over the state ; for the assembly seemed to
act rather as the executive power of the commune, ..."
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