2. Adjective. Which overmasters; dominating, oppressive, conquering. ¹
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Definition of Overmastering
1. overmaster [v] - See also: overmaster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overmastering
Literary usage of Overmastering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Republic of Plato by Plato (1909)
""The so-called necessity of Diomede" of the text may well mean "an overmastering
necessity." According to the Scholiast on this passage, ..."
2. The Works of Frederick Schiller by Friedrich Schiller, Henry George Bohn, Alexander James William Morrison (1872)
"The prize is worthy Of overmastering both. Up, be a man, Worthy of him in whom
the virtues flow Of a young warrior's high, heroic heart; Courage ! my noble ..."
3. Pushing to the Front: Or, Success Under Difficulties; a Book of Inspiration by Orison Swett Marden (1894)
"What are hardships, contumely, slander, ridicule, persecution, toil, sickness,
the feebleness of age, to a soul throbbing with an overmastering purpose ? ..."
4. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1876)
"... mind was so far recovered from the first i her case, I was in a position to
put that con- overmastering shock as to leave her capable solation strongly. ..."
5. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1862)
"It is but another aspect, if we regard it seriously, of the author's early habit
of treating passion or feeling as overmastering impulses, exonerating those ..."
6. Dutch Etchers of the Seventeenth Century by Laurence Binyon (1895)
"fatigue which was overmastering his powers. He was not yet thirty when he died,
but his production had been immense. And in him, as sometimes happens, ..."
7. The Place of Immortality in Religious Belief: A Discourse by Joseph Estlin Carpenter (1898)
"... for release from the overmastering pressure of heredity or social circumstance,
that they too may begin to live as ' Sons of the Highest'? ..."
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