Lexicographical Neighbors of Overgoverning
Literary usage of Overgoverning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Progress of Nations; Or the Principles of National Development in Their (1861)
"The former is the overgoverning of a too-zealous landlord, wishing to improve
vigorously his estate, and promote the well- being of those upon it, ..."
2. The Progress of Nations: Or, The Principles of National Development in Their (1861)
"According to the views of Englishmen of the present age, this characteristic of
aristocratic statesmanship amounts to overgoverning ; and this would seem to ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1855)
"103—his denunciation of Fox's conduct regarding Russia, 318—on the effects of
overgoverning, xl. 582—on the value of a Church Establishment, 797 — witticism ..."
4. Modern Turbine Practice, and Water-power Plants by John Wolf Thurso (1907)
"To prevent overgoverning or racing, a device called the "return " is used with
modern turbine-governors, to arrest the motion of the regulating-gates before ..."
5. History of Civilisation and Public Opinion by William Alexander Mackinnon (1849)
"... There is no country where the mania for overgoverning has taken deeper root
than in France, or been the source of greater mischief. ..."
6. The New Standard History of the World: A General History of All the Nations edited by L. Brent Vaughan (1908)
"The bureaucratic spirit of overgoverning became daily more and more irksome to
the nation, and it was evident that a constitutional struggle was inevitable. ..."
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