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Definition of Overcomes
1. overcome [v] - See also: overcome
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcomes
Literary usage of Overcomes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pilgrim's Progress, from this World to that which is to Come by John Bunyan (1806)
"Christian enters the Valley of Humiliation, where fie is .fiercely •assaulted
bil Apollyon, but overcomes him, NOW he bethought himself of setting forward, ..."
2. Twenty Years of Congress: From Lincoln to Garfield ; with a Review of the by James Gillespie Blaine (1884)
"AUDACITY overcomes NUMBERS. — WHIG PARTY OF THE SOUTH. — ITS BRILLIANT ARRAY OF
LEADERS. — ITS DESTRUCTION. THE negotiation which the seceding State of ..."
3. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria by Gaston Maspero (1904)
"CHAPTER H EGYPT UNDER PTOLEMY SOTER Ptolemy governs Egypt, overcomes Perdiccas,
and founds a dynasty. ..."
4. Therapeutic Gazette (1907)
"When the traction force is so adjusted that it overcomes deformity by overriding
of fragments, and overcomes muscular spasm, the patient will be free from ..."
5. The Monks of the West, from St. Benedict to St. Bernard by Charles Forbes Montalembert, Aurélien Courson (1872)
"After thirteen years' struggle, he overcomes the resistance of lona, and dies on
the very day when the feast of Easter is celebrated by both parties ..."
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