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Definition of Overawing
1. overawe [v] - See also: overawe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overawing
Literary usage of Overawing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Story of New Zealand: Past and Present : Savage and Civilized by Arthur Saunders Thomson (1859)
"overawing feast.—Award of Commissioner set aside to please natives at
Taranaki.—Quarrelsome spirit of natives at Wellington in 1844. ..."
2. The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald: Completing "The by Thomas Barnes Cochrane Dundonald, Henry Richard Fox Bourne (1869)
"LORD COCHRANE'S SUCCESSES IN overawing THE SPANIARDS, IN TREA- SDBE-TAKING, AND
IN ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE PERUVIANS TO JOIN IN THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE. ..."
3. The Life and Thoughts of John Foster by John Foster, William Wallace Everts (1849)
"that is, to form such an idea of him as shall be felt to be worthy to represent
the Creator and preserving Governor of such a scene. 4. overawing sense of ..."
4. The history of the reign of the emperor Charles v by William Robertson (1819)
"SECT, erting all his power and address in influencing ' the election of
representatives, by bribing or overawing the members, and by various changes which ..."
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